The Adventurer

 

Having been outside
all through the long cold night
the cat returns. Let him come in.
Well might you ask, but he’ll tell you nowt.
He’s conquered the Persians perhaps,
or steered his ships
around the Cape; whereas you –
you have the plates, the beds, the bins …

 

© John Looker 2015

 

This is taken from section 2 of my book The Human Hive (Bennison Books 2015, from Amazon. This collection of poems looks at life through our experience of work, down the ages and round the globe. Section 2 celebrates the work in managing a home.