Liverpool Street

schools of pedestrians
upstream contra to course

buskers tune their instruments by
ear while impassioned activists in matching t-shirts jounce
collection tins in
narrow doorways of cosmopolitan
restaurants

caravans of students
loiter in fragments of shadow
cast by the bombed-out church
while locals read poetry, weep
for children & sing songs
that changed the world

Alan Parry is a poet, playwright and poetry editor from Merseyside, England. He is an English Literature graduate and English teacher. Alan enjoys gritty realism, open ends, miniature schnauzers and 60s girl groups. He has previously had work published by Dream Noir, Porridge Magazine, Black Bough Poems and others. He cites Alan Bennett, Stan Barstow and James Joyce as inspiration. His debut poetry collection, Neon Ghosts is available from thebrokenspine.co.uk/store.