Deborah Tyler-Bennett
Greene-Land
Brighton-Rock-facades bear
evening's peeling sunburn,
front slaying grounds where Pinkie,
Spicer, Cubitt rent.
Man ghosting balcony
(small hotel or private apartment
lost to dark's full dinner-dress)
echoing brittle century.
Pinkie's nemesis, Colleoni,
imbibing night's legitimate air.
Gangster's glace eyes fix our backs,
look up - only red-tipped fag.
Further on, improbable hoodlum
sports noir-trilby, car's unsteady light
revealing gun (for sale?) Spots us. Hands piece
driver-wards. Stalks off. No words.
Car shadows.
Faster we go
grateful for neon windows,
courting couples making him turn away.
Just escaping Pinkie's day,
sour as hot breathing on the face.
Quitting balcony, Colleoni
awaits report from hired guns.
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The