A little reverse double acrostic based on the OBAFGKM classification used for stars. I wrote it after staring out the window of the flat where I used to live, the charming one that overlooked Mount Place, Oxford. ♥
“Spectral Classification in Mount Place”
Over by those stones in the courtyard, damaged by the storm
—bemusingly still in tact but weathered—I’m the thin crack,
almost faint enough to miss if you aren’t really looking.
Farther down the canal is where I live. I’m more than half-
grizzled and twenty pounds shy, typical phenomena,
kicking myself for not being more healthy. I’m just drab,
making excuses for when my world was all Jericho.