Hampstead

by Allen Fisher

Hampstead*
from Properties

When you’re inside your limits
and want to hold on
you don’t need reassurance
to help you find out where you are
as you worry about others

You sink into a purple armchair
you want to keep happiness
an orderly home with flowers
and paintings of flowers and a jug
crumples of bright pillows

You go to your new home
before slow re–writing rewiring
Nature morte a terrible term for still life
now free speech informed consent
now worthy trust

*Hampstead in London is where Onora O’Neill lives now she has retired from Cambridge and left her Islington family home. She is the one of the philosophers of bioethics, duty and justice and has increasing concerns regarding social media.