Saturday, August 28, 2010

Deportation

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.




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