Dickenson Road

We are in a back room
Inarticulate we have attempted an exchange
To a background of shuttered windows and dampness
The air, musty, peels away at wallpaper
Pink chrysanthemums are wilted brown
and faded by sunlight, which no longer enters the room.
A depicted garden is crumbling, as plaster decays
Should we have spoken earlier?
Nothing has been achieved here.