Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Stoke Newington Churchyard


 


The morning’s raw with frost;
there’s no one near to see
how lichen smears away
old names from graves
stacked high as tables,
nor number the leaves
that flake from planes,
branch-bare above
those who walk, crisp
through the park, eyes
turned from the gate ahead.

I count no feet on the slabbed street,
only the dead under their stone.

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