Friday, 10 January 2020

St Margaret’s Well




The font we reach
is grimed by the road,
dark where waters gather.

Wrappers and cans
choke the surface;
the black vault drips.

“It’s too quiet,” you say,
pitching a stone through paper,
this day’s order.

We watch rubbish ripple,
tap an acute edge.

“What’s wrong?” you ask,
turning to go,

“It’s not the original;
once it had another name.”
 

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