Monday Morning
Between
the clatter of crockery, conversation,
the strangely sweet and bitter
smell of coffee and croissants,
I wander through the shopping mall.
I smiled at the sun
rising over your face
a mountain dawn
Between
reflections on plate-glass windows,
the tapping of lap-top computers,
I hear halves of conversations
dissolve into mobile phones.
I watched light
through the curtain reflect your hair
ice on the pillow
Between
newspapers, the polishing of shoes,
horoscopes and business plans,
I tread across blank marble floors,
burn my hands on escalator rails.
I kissed you
in the bedroom’s icy air
held on
Between
arc-welders spitting, sparks flailing,
tears of steel girders reeling
under rivet-hammer punches,
I cross the pelican crossing,
push against a revolving door.
The last remnant of
your kiss
melted
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- Cannon's Mouth, The
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- Interpreter's House, The
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- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
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- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
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- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Quarto
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- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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- Shearsman
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- Staple
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- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
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