Mark Haddon
Bushings
They lie discarded in the long grass
between the lighthouse and the kyle,
a yard of snipped-off wire
knotted round their necks.
At one end a white-washed room,
the fog of Woodbines, a terrier
and the fastness of the Norwegian Sea
running in its mildewed frame.
At the other, tanning salons,
the Winter of Discontent, banana
fritters and Saturday Night Fever.
Between them, humming in the cable,
buried under gales and static,
the lonely birthday greetings, requests
for Tunnock’s teacakes and a claw hammer;
the bump and crackle of a coal fire;
the ships that never made it home.
Mark Haddon is the author of 15 children's books, two radio plays and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2003.
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