Austin McCarron
Brockwell Park
Giant flowers of bright yellow,
in factories of air.
Green bush and trees,
pouring concrete over gardens of water.
Massive brown birds,
in shorts,
cutting grass, repairing sections of light.
Reading newspapers
aloud, stone walls and empty buildings.
The sky is leaving all its colours behind.
It drinks
out of sleeping glass with each blue hand.
Through parted trees a church steeple pierces
its silver heart.
Speechless your crowded eyes;
its language of parks and rivers.
Whoever faces the clock tells the wrong time.
We stand at midnight behind interior fences,
sweltering gates.
Over Brixton's
brooding shoulders,
the head of London, its dark hair and lined face.
Rising in the West,
it watches
us climb, firing at will its repeated live messages.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- 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