Coral Hull: Poetry: Reed-Song: Early Poems: Volume 1: Caution Cattle Crossing

I MACKENZIE KNIGHT I A CHILD OF WRATH A GOD OF LOVE I FALLEN ANGELS EXPOSED I

CORAL HULL: REED-SONG: EARLY POEMS: VOL 1
                                                                                                                page-29 CAUTION CATTLE CROSSING

Peak.
Quarter to five. Streets come alive,
With two legged traffic
Where the smiles? In silver trollied aisles
Timetable ridden places, where the faces?
BARGAINS?
"Who do you think you're lookin' at?"
Park pigeons dip from yellow bubblers quietly
A secretary stops with an itchy shoe,
Then shakes a small pebble clear
CLEARWAY ... NO STOPPING
People blowing along footpaths
Like thin pushdown windows
WALK ... WALK ... don't run
Bouncing bottoms cling to skirts
Business men drown in spearmint aftershave
Feet tread ... past sculptures
And dribbling grey fountains
A piscasso blueboy gazes numbly
From a bookshop window, past the
Tied crumpled ties, and blowing skirts
On narrow curbsides
Near a magazine stand, an old man sneezes
Carnations converse in plastic buckets about
News...and men and marriage, and
How the rules have changed.
Tail lights, twilight pipes,
Rush, rush, hour
Defence, spending, plunge, power,
Business men emerge from underground carparks
Buses squat stubbornly and await
The stampede arrival
HALF ROAD CLOSED, DRIVE SLOWLY
Elbows protrude from car windows
Registration overdue and fingers
Massage tension areas ...
Like an old dog worrying on a polished bone.

    

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