First we enter
a series of interconnected
rooms post-ghetto
porous nodes linked
by bus routes
voting patterns
where two boroughs converge
the new bridge
slips
a jack
Maddy
who was with me at the time
compared Bishopsgate
to the muscular sheet metal topography
of Dubai
Bateman’s Row leads to light industry
the 67 to
Dalston is
time travel
Yes: walking Kingsland-Shoreditch-Bishopsgate
is an act of trigonometry culminating in
the downdraft of a tall building
Yes: the business of bodies
Halal Butchers
Afro beauty salon
a sprinkling of blood-red foliage
& we enter
entranced
a linear development
*
Concrete can be
bent to physiology
a chunder of Thames fluids
flick-knife concealed in a privet
The building is a fang
this building is a pyramid
spine of unreal glass
split across the tracks
Sincerely hope
the rain has driven
you away
Tom Chivers 