Pete's Aquarius

Aquarius
Buried Treasure
Callanish
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McMac
Pardon?
Tattoo
Camera Obscura
High Creagan
The West Highlander
Pot Of Gold
StarVoyagers
Deep Breath
Vulpes Vulgaris
Richard
H.M.S. Belfast
Firing Range
Royal Visit
Crisp and Even
Elizabeth
Great Court
S.T. Barnabas
Runaway
Vengence Weapon No 1
Water Trough
Woolwich Ferry
CloudBusting
Segas
Showing My Age
39 Rue Grande
Nigel Knows
Disco
Not Cricket
It Is Better
Mind How You Go
No Flowers
Ashes to Ashes
R.I.P.
Feminist
It was cold outside,
Five degrees below they said,
But wind chill factor
Rimmed my eyes to red,
My face, a stretched tight mask,
My scalp, a vice that grips my head.

Strange to think
That Scott and Bird,
Although they felt this blast,
Had never heard
Of wind chill factor.

However,
Bursting through my white front door
Three strides to reach ignition switch
On dull gold fire standing mute,
Sharp explosion makes dead cats twitch
And slowly come to life,
Leave central heated silk covered chair
And stretch their way
To covering of brown goats hair.

Round they walk,
Round and round,
Three times it seems the corkscrew move
These prehistoric circles prove
That all is safe upon the ground,
And so it is,
As felines flop to sighing sound,
And flex their claws, as bodies arch
In writhing exotic ecstasy.

My naked feet,
Once ice blocks, golden glow,
And silky stretch between cat and goat.
My eyes slow close,
And ears perceive the rumbling throat,
Whilst beyond the glass, beyond the wall,
The petals of snow silent fall.