The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore

Author:Helen Dunmore [Helen Dunmore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: NOID
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2012-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Skulking

A heap of cloud

skulks over the roofs

like the summit of a bully’s ambition –

the short dark days of winter

dear to me

as a bully to his mother.

Basement at Eighteen Folgate Street

I know them by their shoes –

clean kid on a Sunday,

work-boots on Mondays

chipping sparks from the pavement,

or skittery dance shoes

going to the Palais on a Saturday –

the cuff-cuff-cuff of too many lives –

Barclays Bank, St Ives

Old men with sticks and courteous greeting

who have learned the goodness of days

and give freely the hours it takes

to reach the fathomless depth of the pipe’s tamped bowl

or the corolla of that daffodil

damply unfolding, or a toothless smile from a pushchair

that irradiates the granite morning.

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