Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Center Parc

Lean Suffolk winds
gush and worry through these pencil pines
where squirrels live, content
among posh cabins, bikes and anoraks.

This orderly, numbered wooden village
laid out, clean, as a board game corpse
offers inquisitive urbans careful shelter
as they search for sanitised rurality.

Bravely, clutching site plans,
they venture warily, in search
of their promised wild,
the great outdoors securely fenced.

These pioneering urbans, migrants
from the Rohan, North Face or Barbour tribes
return Superdry to light their fires,
cook victuals foraged from the village store
and wrestle with the tricky wi-fi hub.

© Graham Sherwood 03/2017

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