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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR

Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020

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Will Daunt

Ormskirk L39 2EF

 

 

Will's six collections are published by Oversteps, Indigo Dreams and Lapwing. He's edited collections by Eddie Wainwright and Tim Noble, reviewing for Envoi, New Hope International, Pulsar and Tears In The Fence.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: the Lydiate Connections was published in 2019.

Poem finished 14th April 2020

 

 

RUSHOLME

 

M14 5LQ

 

So that’s where you sped to     after we’d pledged

to meet beside the Islamic Centre

next to where they’re Making Jesus Famous

I’ve only been gone an evening      so why

bereave me standing by the Ju Jitsu

gym      and skew-whiff CCTV      then steal

my fleece with the discs we sang to down

the 602      Would someone really

nab your space      even when you’re impounded

a boy ride away on the Oxford Road?