now even now
it’s like a ghost town now
& O the distant hills
are a more ghostly blue
than before
now even a few stray locals
come & go stranger even now
than they were before &
O the dear police cars patrol
with speakers are more ghostly too
& through my bedroom window
the gable ended stone house wall
grows evermore iconic faces
than before — even now
as daily the days flock by
more than before — now even now
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; his publications include
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, and the recently published Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)