Saturday Afternoon at the Smithy
Heart-pumped heat wall -
bellow-breathed cherry tip
Tink-tung Tink-tung
spring-hammered hop-head rhythm
bingo-winged ripple, suet and mouth.
Square peg – round hole? No problem.
Hot iron wrought with box-jaw tong tease.
Tight fit. Good. Sweat-drop-splatter.
Wire teeth scrape garnet rifts,
Pig scratch back into scraped coke -
metal to plasticine.
White fizzy sparks fly and hiss
Phlopp – thirsty water stings.
Ferrous blood taste – time for tea.