The Day the Grass Came - Leo Aylen


The day the grass came


I’d climbed to the top of the world

Asphalt gas tip volcano’s crater of scum-covered tar

Sloping, slithering, down a solidified lake

To mini-gasometers squashed into rust

Squatting by scaffold bars wrenched into s’s and squirms,

Railway lines jaggedly mounting black air

Tangled with cranes crooked over the dangling chains

Clanking on corrugated huts swaying high

On their tracery mounting, clunking on piles

And piles of ladders climbing themselves to confusion …

Everything leading to nowhere …


Railway sleepers lie scattered …


Rotten sleepers lie scattered,

Slumped in the rusty dust.


Sleepers, waiting for what?

(my favourite paragraph starts with)

Most of the naked apes...

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