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Saint George

The cross that's carved deep

because

we have to keep a memento.

 

but I know without seeing

that someone is keying

the code in

forever

sticking the nails in.

 

Have you been to the place beyond

the place where you think

you can't face it?

 

it's somewhere behind me,

waiting to catch up and grind

me down doing a

left, right

left, right

marching off into the,

is that daylight?

 

Words fail me as the scales fall away

and the Dragon breathes fire across,

what was the name of that bay?

 

watching Morecambe on the

web cam

an old man on a trolleybus

going to the fayre.

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john-edward-smallshaw
70 / English
Published
Apr 22, 2017
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