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Tony Williams
Tony Williams has been published in the
TLS, Anon, Andwerve, Matter, Avocado and The Printer’s Devil, and has poems forthcoming in
The Rialto and The Interpreter’s House. His work is represented in
Ten Hallam Poets (Mews Press, 2005).
Nougat
Persons accrue like plaque from junk food,
acquiring houses to addulce their lives
and erode God’s teeth with open caves
with none of the wonder of the trickled gem
but all of the conjured levering machine,
which then departs when the block is gone,
leaving tracks for its cousin in the mud,
the shunting dino who stuffs the hole dumb
with filling mixture from our wheelie-bins.
They grass it over and the quarrel’s done.
Bus Between Towns
Verges of clearways, flora and weltschmerz,
the waver of lane-marks, veering sliproads,
emergency telephones the colour of orange chewits,
ghosts on the bus and the chirp of their mobiles,
pornography and fox-furs striped with rubber,
signage naming destinies, and sergeants
getting relentlessly demoted into junctions.
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