Swift

Swift-brick backers were openly miffed

When Steve Reed let his stance sharply shift …

If he still wants to root

For the bird, he can toot

That his U-turn was patently swift!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the Guardian story, “Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes.”