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in
chapbook Wake, 2009, Flarestack Poets, ISBN 978-1-906480-22-6
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and
Architexts (Humber Mouth Festival / Hull City Arts 2007).
OO
Paragon Railway Station,
Hull
Paragon
purrs: whooshed
doors,
whistles; mag-lev trains rise,
aim
at squares of wheat,
are
gone on the dot,
toward
sand-paper, wrinkles
painted
on the sea.
Your
chopper’s eye shows
an
immaculate reef-knot:
motorways,
A roads,
underpasses,
fly-
overs
slipped through each other
to
baize estates, leafy
neat
neighbourly streets
with
health and leisure centres,
Big
Screen complexes;
escalators
coil
round
marinas, malls, swoop
to
galleries, cathedrals,
gleaming
academic towers.
*
Maybe
to mock us,
there
are mock-ups of all this
in
the Mayor’s office.
Balsa,
perspex, card,
wire,
felt, Hornby 00 trees;
hand-painted
families
cross
concourse, zoom high
to
where their Dinky hatch-backs
are
unstacked from sky.
A
couple of sniffs
of
cotton wool are caught on
one
lonely chimney.
Back
at Paragon,
the
face-lifted station
is
where the future seems
to
have run out of steam.
From
up there you’d see
DIY
factories:
Texas,
Homebase, B&Q.
And
further, beyond
where
Spurn’s thin bird-bone of sand
drifts
in from the east,
the
estuary,
the
night-bound ferry:
the
wake from the lit-up P&O.
Cliff Forshaw
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