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SHYAMA/ LEEDS LS6
Brudenell Street walks anonymously towards extinction pestered by snows of festering litter, irritated by the wild-haired imaginings of children condemned to back-alley exile. Shyama watches brackish life poke chlorophyll fingers through magic cracks in hop-scotch patterned pavements. Shyama watches the sky beyond sleep-walking rooftops smeared with chemical-reaction cloud. Shyama watches abandoned reefs of concrete where derelict cars in various statuesque stages of disintegration, implode almost gracefully ... more in context than the dark-skinned Hindu child watching it all with million-year eyes
ANDREW DARLINGTON

SHYAMA/ LEEDS LS6

Brudenell Street walks anonymously
towards extinction pestered by
snows of festering litter,
irritated by the wild-haired
imaginings of children
condemned to back-alley exile.
Shyama watches brackish life
poke chlorophyll fingers
through magic cracks in
hop-scotch patterned pavements.
Shyama watches the sky beyond
sleep-walking rooftops smeared
with chemical-reaction cloud.
Shyama watches abandoned reefs
of concrete where derelict cars
in various statuesque stages
of disintegration, implode
almost gracefully ...

more
in context
than the dark-skinned
Hindu child watching it all
with million-year
eyes

ANDREW DARLINGTON

from
New Hope International New Series #12

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