Lent
I hear the planet crying such Teen Angst
withdraw from use
allow for repair a reconstruction of the senses
amidst the sunshine there will be showers
a blue box of magic tricks
modulator synthesis
forty days forty nights forty lines
this time of year available light
precursor to walking city rivers skimming pebbles
wish for a clearer way
like a leaf circling around the deer shelter
and the poppy towering above the tall grass
Night Shift
Colder at 3.00 a.m.
warehouse shelters Christmas
harbours desire for 6.00 a.m.
cycle through beginning streets of day
scope of clear December moon
the motorway echoes
deliveries light the yard
steam clouds the sulphur tinted view
A Poetry Now
for Tom Raworth
travel through Bostonian dawn
time shift through messenger hits
UK Duty Paid
Kent was in full autumn foxes
and pheasants crossing the lanes
trapped in mesh fence
CCTV windows a security hut
Le Monde a US Campus
new classicality a Vegan promoter
sound-tracking death
Autumn becomes Winter
the first frost
purchasing a Watch Cap
in anticipation
closed Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
of season accompanied by the swan's call
preparation for the long sleep
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Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool poet and co-editor of erbacce and erbacce-press. His latest collection comes from Sunnyoutside Press. Poetry has recently appeared in Full of Crow, Side of Grits, Otoliths and Epic Rites. He has a PhD in Poetry and Poetics. You can read his blog here.
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