Thursday, 24 November 2022

heads & gates

 heads & gates


in the company 

of the hierarchy 

of the furnace men 

sweat red metalled 

muscled veined sweat

above a leather apron 

oiled with that sweat

tap the furnaces

flows the metal

the slag 

the heads 

the gates

clamped and hosed

dust smoking dust

WHAM!


the bottom has ignited

drying ovens rumble

billie cans of sherbet salt

the moulders’ slake

the gantry’s thumbs-up

hooks-up the eyed ladles 

shield the devil red

wire loops flail time

the last mould is cast

drop the cupola 

WHAM!


WhoooOOOooo

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