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City Poem
City Poem Under the iron bridge, office workers, wet with rain, crowd on coaches & trams. I stay by the river & watch them go. ...

Richard Mather


Aquarius
Aquarius So, the routes of the city, all its paths, arteries and overflows – the scummy run-offs from sewers and roads – end or...

Richard Mather


The North Is
The North Is Rain strikes terraces stacked in brown brick  And wind blows through the underpass.   Two fat-breasted pigeons  Fly...

Richard Mather


Lancaster Apparition
Lancaster bleached by rain –
a wet wind blows
through a line of washing.
Fog frost, petrol odour,
urban towertops
vanish in the aerial grey

Richard Mather
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