A steel meat hook
Clink-clanks onto the tile floor;
Dead ears don't hear

TV aerials against
The evening sky
The smell of supper

The smog and grumble
Of cars returning home
Wakes the streetlamps


* Phuoc-Tan Diep is a poet and a histopathologist hidden away in North Norfolk. He came to the UK from Vietnam when he was 3 years old.