Nuns by Mark Haddon

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1581239,00.html

This poem, Nuns by Mark haddon appeared in Saturday's Guardian review and I'm just wild for it. It's yonks since I read a poem that made me think 'Whooo, that's the way it looks to me'.

" They are not mourned,
for come October,
when the ghost train shuts
down

and the coloured bulbs along
the pier
are packed away,
their places will be filled

by girls we teased in school
who yearned for love
and dreamed of reaching up

to take the teacher's hand
and being lifted from the flesh
in which they'd never felt at
home,"

Lovely,

Cheers,

Mark Brown, Editor, www.ABCtales.com