DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
Kathleen Bell - Seen through Toughened Glass
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
Seen through Toughened Glass
Kathleen Bell
A helicopter spins
silent as sunlight. Mouthing builders
climb and grin.
New flats are stacked like coffins.
Terraces fade, lace curtains
have pulled themselves across, and grief
forces a woman to her knees.
I smile at the vitality of cranes.
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