[sub]urban sprawl: night storage for commuters

sacred monsters, knaves and fools
crowblack the night comes flapping

Shock!

have walked into
something soft

(a perfumed corpse?)

mind’s graffiti
shouts ALARM!

rotating in the dark
a life coming apart
like old underwear

words / images / images of words
slip between the seams

one wolf eats another

 

 

Sam Smith is editor of The Journal magazine and publisher of Original Plus books. Author of several novels and collections of poetry, he presently lives in Blaengarw, South Wales.