Diversions
A year on to the day
from your cremation
and the exit sign
from the M11 flashes
that the M25 is closed
at Junction Thirty.
Split second decision:
no toll at Dartford,
no Blackwall Tunnel,
‘yes’ to the one Sunday ferry
running out of Woolwich.
We share a baguette,
try to make it a bit
of an adventure:
there, the Thames Barrier;
here, the slop of ash-grey water
roughing up the cloud-cover
above and ahead of us.
We loop onto the A20.
To the east the fire
that’s stalled everything
anti-clockwise back
to Junction Three.
For a week or so
unaccountable specks
will fall steadily
on the rose-beds
of Travel Lodges
still able to offer
a special weekend rate.
Hardly a thought
given to the steady progress
of your boxed-in body
rolling straight
into the flames that day.
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