OLD TESTAMENT WEATHER

I was in Barcelona last week. I went to visit friends and see Ryley Walker at Sidecar, a little club on Placa Reial. On the Thursday the heavens opened and it poured down.
The first poem was written after it had stopped. 

Barcelona 15.11.18.

it feels as if the sky has broken
as our car surfs through the downpour

raindrops the size of dinner

plates splatter the road

the traffic lights fail

as lightening cracks overhead

Old Testament weather you proclaim

and it is difficult to disagree.

This next one I wrote on the train travelling south down the coast to visit friends for the day.

and there is always some bloke

man spread and bellowing
telling his friends he’s on the train

convinced he’s the Samuel Pepys of the digital age

as he relates in mind numbing detail 
the contents of his sandwich

we slowly progress towards the point when he will say

that he will be with them in a minute 
because he can see the platform

as he departs a strange silence will fall until

another observant male 
informs the carriage that he is on a train

Originally it was a prose poem but when I came to type it up it seemed to sit better on the page as free verse. It may change yet.
I shall leave you with some Ryley Walker. Sadly there is no footage from Sidecar, but here's some from Madrid.

Until next time.