Downstream

landscape laid with stretches
of water like stepping stones;
a clump of shiny white
snowdrops are tucked away
behind a fence. The mud
around the stone is pitted with
boot marks; I’m not the first
person here this morning.
Until a few years ago this
was also home to a statue of
Father Thames, but it was
removed downstream to St
John’s Lock after visitors
started chipping pieces off as