Wednesday 10 July 2024

in response to jon’s photograph of port talbot

 in response to jon’s photograph of port talbot 


the flyover

after having flown over

slips


the houses pray

at the way

the smoking toad


has curved around the fetlocks 

of the furnaces load

in a brutalist sameness


all eyes turn towards tomorrow

for in today’s shutting down

of the furnaces 

blast

the flyover has died 

for under it all is dead

a blast from the past moves the wrappers

of the chocolates of yesterday’s if


there is a glowering in the hillsides

there is a glowering in the dales

better if you moved away form wales to england 

said the rhonchi and the rales 


smelt and the world smelts with you

cough and you cough alone


molten has moulted

the horse has bolted 

the stable door is locked



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