Colnbrook Immigration Reception Centre
Deportation
Sunday morning early
most homes still curtained-blind
I saw a pair of shoes
gaudy-gold giddy
night-out for fun shoes
some dozen yards apart
a half-pint bitter glass
abandoned unfinished
a lost thin silver ring
unconnected except
by my morning walk.
Tuesday morning later
I recognised a shoe
a grubby once-gold shoe
footloosed but not free lost
some distance from its old
place quite unconnected
except in my telling.
This morning early
homes still hard-blinded shut
against the dawn your door
exploded dragged vanned you
forcibly flew you back
not-home disconnected.
