Poetry God
The air is full with thick-rain,
pavements an inch in rain
-water runs into roads to
the brim of the curb
as trees drip
like beach brollies
where pigeons on a shop-step
like a pair
of saturated boots
watch as poetry god
renews today
till life in it is peaceful.
AM Spence was born in Manchester and read literature as an undergraduate at The University of Manchester UK. In 2009 she completed her MA in creative writing in poetry at the same university.