December Sun
1
The sign, the aura of a migraine:
in the mouth of the tunnel
drops splodge from its roof –
skew-whiff runnels on
the car’s bright windscreen.A weepy fluorescence -
through crinkled cellophane,
then a gunstapled rinse
with random stigmata.11
Lodged in an obscure cleft –
maybe down the back of some fetid settee –
its yellow caterpillar finger
comes feeling for me.111
Sick of dusky interiors…
But now, having run the gauntlet of the rat-ta-tat strobe
through stripped trees,
I’m re-adjusting my peaked cap sideways downwards
again,
revving in traffic
that inches in line out of the city, waiting for that
blessed angle
when the sun
will capitulate – inked out behind what I
think must be
an advertising hoarding.
Then watch me smash and grab that glove
compartment
for paracetamol and dark glasses.
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