These poems to appear in the next issue (10) of Mistress Quickly’s Bed
MQB Address
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/magazines/magazines/?id=605
Review of Issue 5
https://leilaniestewart.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/mistress-quicklys-bed-issue-5/
Slowly Go
(Dunston Mechanics Club, 2016)
The club’s been closed for a year or more,
roof’s going with the lead,
the entrance has a giant lock and boards of wood
criss-cross as if forbidding profanities:
“Bad language will not be tolerated in this club.”
The past can’t escape,
another working men’s’ club dead,
victims never appear in police reports
shoved under the mat, not wanted here,
instalments from yesteryear,
no reviews in e-zines or glossies,
they just slowly go.
At The Regal, Jarrow
we leave the ochre light of the street;
into the foyer, sinking feet deep into swirling carpet,
everything golden.
Me and mam blink near the front,
packet of sweets
in a white paper bag.
The film is something from God,
fallen into our laps;
this tabernacle of pulsing light
not needing answers in this heaven on earth:
celestial paradise in the middle of a row.
Charlie’s Park, Jarrow
there’s too many ghosts here for my liking,
bumping into them and getting no response.
I scramble down Sandy’s Hole,
just stop myself running headlong into the Slaaks.
I am miles away,
a life-time or two later but that doesn’t seem to matter
as mist covers the bare busted trees
exposed in light.
Tom Kelly
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