north - more from the poem

in

almost every

issue of a

box of

1970's

surfer magazines

obituaries

regular murders.

solar gain.

large snow

flakes

audibly

strike

dry leaves.

somewhere

in front of strangeways

great ducie street

changes unmarked to

bury new road.

pigeon shit

in clear bars

under the bridge

like oil paint

but close up

merging

back into the road

back into the pavement.

running home

to feel breath hurt.

top stones

and the attached fence

hanging

where the wall below

was knocked out

by a car.

handpainted numbers on

wheeled bins

allotment scarecrows

flyers for lost pets.

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