Lee Harwood
In Work
for the photographer Ben E. Watkins
amongst labour to see
in the crowd of people
before you I mean
in front of you
and those weaving their way
through the streets behind
in sight out of sight
A passage through
amongst labour to see
in the crowd of people
their shadows still then gone
the hopping children and lingering
adults smiling or hard-mouthed
or just going somewhere they know
with purpose or as though drifting
A featureless sky above
amongst labour to see
in the crowd of people
the viscous webs that wrap
round our faces that bind us
not the elegant ‘empty’ city
we dream in but something warmer
private worlds arm in arm with each other
You cross a road enter a building.
Lee Harwood lives by the sea in Brighton & Hove. Recent books - In the mists: mountain poems (1993) and Morning Light (1998), both published by Slow Dancer Press.
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