Observed On An Evening Run

Kids dropping footballs into puddles, and riding bikes over daffodil stems; white blossom on the crematorium grass; municipal planting schemes: gravel and cordyline; dandelions where the crocuses used to be; flowers wrapped in cellophane tied halfway up a lampost: an epitath to doomed youth; a broken streetlight, on before dark; strip lights in hospital windows; trainers on damp ground, the wind chilling my knee caps.