Friday 15 April 2011

Reviewing Michael Longley's A Hundred Doors

And it felt right somehow,
spending four pounds eighty
on two coffees to give myself
time to finish his new book –

the station filling and emptying
like a milk jug. There are many
shirts, ties, looks – they are
tolerating the violence, the stroppy
endurance of trains. Unsurprised

to find itself indoors
under a dirty roof,
a pigeon cocks its ear
to catch a poem.

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