The Fair Leaves Town
The hum of early traffic
resonates
where skeletal rides
seek egress
on lorries bound
for the next town,
and the road opens
like a wound,
becomes
a thoroughfare again.
We view the marketplace
as we would
a post-festive room,
with decorations gone.
How can they bear
the constant flux
of packing up –
moving on.
Linda Ford is from Derbyshire and has an M.A. in Creative Writing (Distinction) from the O.U. She was a 2021 recipient of Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers’ Programme and is an arts council funded poet. Her first collection entitled Lucent is out with erbacce-press.