The Ballad of HMS Belfast by Ciaran Carson

Author:Ciaran Carson [Carson, Ciaran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509818297
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Her slightly antiseptic perfume is a reminiscent je-ne-sais-quoi

Glimpsed through Pear’s Soap, an orange-sepia zest of coal-tar —

It’s that moiré light from the bathroom window, or a body seen behind

The shower-curtain, holding a Champagne telephone — the colour, not the drink,

Though it gives off a perceptible hiss. And the continuous background

Rumble is a string of Ms and Rs, expanding and contracting

To reveal the windswept starry night, through which a helicopter trawls

Its searchlight. Out there, on the ground, there’s a spoor of Army boots;

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