Edinburgh Buses
By alexwritings
The general state of things in 2010-2011...
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The night sky over Stepney
Night: its cross-hatching of antilight behind the eyes; its white-noise hiss of unused sound.
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"We will shortly be arriving at Lockerbie."
Streaked and grey with speed and rain; cut up by pylon cables which tense and wane
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An homage to plastic cutlery (part 1)
In the warm cabin, The girl swept the crepe mixture round the circular griddle like a World War II radar. The other side of the counter, the air was crisp and cold.
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Tea Philosophy
The kettle's on, and now I've shot the glow into you on this unexpectedly yellow spring day - us holding coats and jumpers in the shock of its sudden hot coming - your undoing
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Long Distance
Long Distance The bay window evenings eying cold hills through world-muting glass, love ordered numbers I dial shakily: 0141 [her city, its termini and gum freckled pavements]
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For Sale
bolder and deeper with the seasonless months...
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Edinburgh Buses
And as evening weighs its tender jaw on lambent streets, now bristling with twilight enterprise my gaze again meets the bus’s...
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To Suburbia
Garden toys, algaed; ponds putrid with dank leaves; door slams echoing for want of company, and a world home to the busiest, sullenest most double- yoked nothingness I have ever known.
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Hannah
This poem has been removed following its entry into a competition.
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Pollarded
flecks of shade Cavort on the roofs Of parked cars,
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Imagist Suburbia
The evening light tan-coloured on the high-rise draws out its Sky dishes like blackheads;
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Turqouise Towels And Riding Crops
Even depression these days is branded in London. Mine is delivered as a blank parcel to the mind, its contents an image of the Hanger Lane Gyratory...
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View from the Sixth Floor of an Edinburgh Library
Snowed hills: white waves breaking thickly on the horizon.
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mild existentialism in a coastal churchyard
Beside the pub where Samantha - with eyelashes that cut like a Dyson Airblade - stands with a collection tin for the RNLI, is the churchyard. There's...
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