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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