We are here

I gave up counting poles
and settled for the rise
and fall of wires

 

Thoughts setting out
on journeys of their own
oblivious to strangers’ conversations
and Canal ALSA animations

 

Life within a life
World within worlds
This is who we are

 

A travelling abstraction

 

Larkin’s weddings
tunnelling, invisible
Conditional

 

Unnoticed
Unforgotten

 

Particular and general
Sacred
Indivisible

 

Inevitably, stepping down
to cast our words on solid ground
Announcing

 

We are here