The Voyage: Edited by Chandani Lokuge & David Morley

by Silkworms Ink Anthologies

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  I’m not down some

  grey-muzzled road

  off the old Kite

  nor chalked up

  with REFRESHMENTS

  and ICES beneath

  a pyramid

  of canned peas

  there since rationing

  nor standing any week-day

  dusk by a temporary

  bus stop on Pound Hill

  nor head-down

  over the drop handlebars

  of some five-gear

  Gentleman’s Racer

  sporting tweeds

  and cycle-clips

  nor behind a crack-pot

  hollyhock by spiked black

  railings past the U.L.

  but simply blistering off

  in globules

  that have collected

  according to the laws

  of surface tension

  on the bonnet

  of a permit-holder’s Polo

  under paving-stone-

  cracking sycamores

  down Grange Road

  contemplating that turn

  up to the Maltings

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