Hackney Song
Coughing velvet suit
all the sing songs of
britishness
on the so-claimed
2nd day of spring
Women in red slippers
dogs off-leash
the houses all
squashed like—
jangling of keys in
gate
A refrigerated truck pulls up
to Hill & Szrok
an elegant neon-signed
& navy blue butcher
throw open the backdoors
whole pigs hang like fresh caught
fish closed sunshine on pink skin
