Story Cities by Cherry Potts

Author:Cherry Potts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909208797
Publisher: Arachne Press

BETWEEN SKYSCRAPERS

Wes Lee

The vortex around you dissolving

like the last drops of something.

When rain is easing.

When snow is stopping.

When all the icicles have fallen.

When all the fish have slapped from the

clouds onto the roofs of station wagons.

DAWN OF THE CITY

Nicholas McGaughey

The sun is out with the sweepers,

there’s been no frost.

8am on a November Sunday,

with the seagulls strutting on the bridge

and nobody much about,

bar a smudged zombie and a werewolf quaking

in a doorway.

By the brown tiled tap-room

there are no buses,

the pavement greased

with slid kebabs

and a flower of sick

by the all-night caff

where breakfast is served.

The ticket dispensers… don’t,

as last night’s stragglers,

with eyes like currants,

exaggerate their evenings,

and wend their way back

to whatever welcomes await them,

where fried eggs are stared at behind broadsheets,

before stairs, and the flimsy parapet of a glaring bed.

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