Monday 7 February 2011

train ride


Passing blue bin lorries,
Privet and concrete warehouses
On the way to Deal.

Rolling by cranes and sand piles
Calling at Ashford -
Debenhams and Stagecoach buses.

Pink woolly hats and a zipped up coat
Wrap up warm for the seaside
A windy February morning.

Picking up speed past redbrick homes
A monkey puzzle tree and PC World.

Faster and faster until church spires fade
Green fields appear, sheep, ploughed land.

Whiz into a tunnel and rumble out
To a home for electricity, pylons skyhigh -
Shaped like helter-skelters.


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