Pete Dunstone

Like They Do in the Movies

At the Sundance Saloon the hard-eyed boss is in a huddle with her gang of shifty lowlifes, chewing tobacco and spitting into the sawdust, slugging shots of whisky, firing at the chandeliers and bad-mouthing the staff. I want to knock jam-filled sponges out of orbit to plummet with the petits choux and pink fancies, run out of this lace tea shop hand in hand with the waitress through a hail of buttered scones, into a white-hot freeze frame light.

tumble weed
promises
no one made

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About the Author

Pete Dunstone has had a fine art education and many different jobs, finally resting in horticulture. He likes plants, automata, woodworking and birding in the UK’s Somerset Levels. His poems have appeared in Blithe Spirit and The Haibun Journal.