as if through some forgotten fault
a rugged asbestos spire purports
unappointedly above its urban parapet:
this is the inauspicious bishopric
that deconsecrated your wing
and disarmed your prayer
internally, your landing gear regressed
and your wing-tips dimmed as gently
as the sundown of a pilot’s eye:
dreaming elevators being lately unexercised
with inevitable time the creeping ivy awakens
and the lichen clamours for quiescence
look – the provost 88
we prodded amongst sudden ruins
carefully dismantled accidents
with safety-belt sentries that returned
without protest to their positions
these denying moments made silken webs
of spilled reveries and unmade windscreens
whose cold fragments crackled beneath our soles
and
all this emerald airbrushing,
popping
sunken little sandcastles.
here – and there…
these eighteen minor sieges, the
middling
sorts on manoeuvres.
ancient trees mustering
there,
sporting
seasonal tweed
and,
cordially,
standing aside.
Tags: cheadle hulme, golf
passengers seen and unseeing:
we count the passing mill towns
their spheres of ambered brick
in damp abacus streets
then darkness itself replies
multiplying our emptiness
but for the lonely cab-glow
of the southbound trucks
searching for the next
pale imitation of stars
Tags: lancashire, night, poems, trains, travel
the bay lies west
amniotic, adoptive
her contours rise, lining
mossy basket walls in the east
and we are cradled
with our backs facing forward
elevated and headlong
like fleeting parents
in the shredded muslin
of our own imaginations
beckoning
from the frosted fells
Tags: cumbria, lancashire, trains, travel
rendered in frames per annum
that lingering hit-and-run
whose moment of impact
flickers on
for
years
in capitalism
that still-buckling
corpus at the moment of damage
Tags: also applies to money-grabbing bastards the world over, capitalism, poems, pottery industry, stoke-on-trent
every newly
machine-unreadable
number cross-unreferenced
and crossly unexplained
remains
my unique id
to someone
‘s intents and purposes
and how easily the “i”
can be picked from
a card index,
or exported
/ re-entered
as a creature,
of journeys,
multibuys,
discounted,
ripped, wrung, overdrawn
and direct-debit-per-quartered
save for that digital death mask
Tags: bank statements, capital, credit cards, databases, globalisation, multiverse, space of flows
winter
and its shooting gallery
with its blistered tiles
and balletic perishing
snow-flecks on his eyelashes
and the roll-up poaching
milkily in his skimmed complexion
Tags: bus station, christmas, crib, hanley, poem
