Alan Summers - Urban

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Alan Summers
London, England


mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial

bright breeze
a sighted person fingers
the statue's eyes


the boom of bass
in out of workmen's hammers
lesser celedines


two boys giggle
as he enters the bike shop ...
the onion seller


Old Curiosity Shop -
laquered dolls
out in the mid-day sun


traffic jam
a driver fingers the breeze
through the sunroof


down the sidewalk
an old vagrant
daisies in his mouth


smell of watermelon ...
the high sun factor face block
just purchased


sultry evening
liquid from the take out bag
runs near the victim


mirror tiles -
a mayfly's legs
in four corners



reedmace & bluebells...
a torn porn magazine
off the cemetery path


an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust


cricket song
the jogger crunches
between loose gravel


dandelion fluff
Batavia lettuce
the color of money


dusk at the golf club
part of a marker pole
a tawny frogmouth


cemetery entrance-
clean anti-pigeon spikes
on the courtyard cross


inter-city train journey -
a rattling window top
shuts itself


old concrete post
threaded with lichen
its new barbed wire


strange heat -
a week to my birthday
the red ferrari passes again


Waterloo sunset
the Thames disappears
from the Tube map


train judder
sunlight on every ripple
of the river


winter timetable-
the late train leaves behind
half a school trip


dark morning...
the sushi bar opens up
for the train station


field of stargazers
I'm the one who waves
at the Chinese satellite


powdered snow -
a crow's eyes above
the no parking sign


Oxford Street
the sweet chestnut vendor's
blackened fingers


curling up at dusk
the park bench sleeper
turns over a new page


ill all day . . .
a crime novel
in both rooms


down side streets -
seagulls turning the sky
in and out


Hokusai's wave
on her T-shirt:
she strokes my ankle


art cafe
the security guy hums
a James Bond theme


escape velocity
the moon pulls oceans
behind Apollo 11


snow blizzard...
indoors I'm reminded
of Charles Chaplin


coolness of spring rain
waiting with the bus queue
on newly cut hair

flash of yellow
a butterfly headbutts me
in my work break


vodka chilli cocktail
I become a corner
in the edge of a room


double security grills
a common woodpecker stops
the data input


early Spring - the clank
at the railway station
of its clocks seconds


piercing cold-
a balti restaurant doorway
lights up a black cat



the long white apron
of a barman -
the day menu unscrews


tiredness
in the night train microcosm
yawns


park lunch break
office workers' jackets droop
from branches


train window
her reflection
turned away

hot janurary
sweat drips
from a scalpel


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Alan Summers, Area 17
With Words


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