Monday, 3 August 2026

the river at the scrapyard

 the river at the scrapyard 


as close a slippery allows

the riverside grasses flow

beneath the feet of a diversion


for the scrapyard is out of bounds 


there’s this thing

that has a long handle and a weight

and it swings and bangs

and demolishes things


we could walk the railway past

but that is on the other side of daring

so we lean out around the fence

around the wall

above the river

and make it our duty so to do


so

the canal in the tunnel passes

and where the wall is broken we peer

at the fear that echos no way

no way are we going in there

far better to visit the robins nest

and speculate what’s next

on our flight of fancy


the scrapyard is a wrecked adventure

and the river has flown by


spinning on heels

the whether or not cock points

and we take off

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