Yours
"this they call the doctrine of the shattered vessels"
There is an old man locked out in the street
who shouts at no-one and dank air
as fitfully
as an injured animal
rolls on its side
and a shuttered-down store called Rajia's
where a dog flattens its nose
on wet red brick and slick
blue stones
and a sort of stillness like clear sky
a jolt of realisation
as in the aftershock
of someone else's accident:
like glass
the First Cause lies open
its seven-branched its broken …
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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