Shoreditch Orchid - preview
Peter Daniels’ Arvon International Poetry Award-winning poem. Peter, of Stoke Newington Local Meeting, also won the Ted Hughes Environmental Poetry Prize
They’re grubbing up the old modern
rusty concrete lampposts,
with a special orange grab
on a fixture removal unit
The planters come up behind
with new old lampposts in lamppost green,
and bury each root in a freshly-dug hole
The bus can’t get past, brooding in vibrations
We’re stuck at the half-refurbished
late-Georgian crescent of handbag wholesalers
The window won’t open The man behind me
whistles ‘What a Wonderful World’,
and I think to myself:
Peter Daniels
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