David Pike: The Gurning Lady of Lydiard Park

THE GURNING LADY OF LYDIARD PARK
The gurning lady of Lydiard Park will only train after dark, for many complex and varied reasons; some ponder and suggest there is, perchance, a special gurning season, perhaps, in the long dark hours of winter months? Others have a different hunch and surmise the strange and hideous faces she pulls have somehow damaged her eyes, making her nocturnal in operational matters relating to all things gurnal, and it's hard to know who's wrong or right - but it doesn't register two-hoots, really because the gurning lady of Lydiard Park will only train after dark, so conjecture, supposition and patter are all very well, but when it comes to gurning in the park at the end of the day (in the dark), no-one sees her, so it doesn't matter.
DAVID PIKE

THE GURNING LADY OF LYDIARD PARK

The gurning lady of Lydiard Park
will only train after dark,
for many complex
and varied reasons;

some ponder
and suggest there is, perchance,
a special gurning season,
perhaps, in the long dark hours
of winter months?

Others have a different hunch
and surmise
the strange and hideous faces
she pulls
have somehow damaged her eyes,
making her nocturnal
in operational matters
relating to all things gurnal,
and it's hard to know
who's wrong or right -
but it doesn't register two-hoots, really
because the gurning lady of Lydiard Park
will only train after dark,
so conjecture, supposition and patter
are all very well,
but when it comes to gurning
in the park
at the end of the day
(in the dark),
no-one sees her,
so it doesn't matter.

DAVID PIKE

David Pike lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. He has had three books published: Sentinel Of The Row, (novel), On The Ridge, (poems) and A Cold Night For Norman, (short stories). He is editor of Pulsar Poetry Magazine. His poetry has also been published in numerous small press magazines, newspapers and on web sites including Zimmerzine.

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