Horses in Upton Park I hadn’t expected the horses, splendid in their yellow smocks and welder’s visors. What they must have thought of us. They lived in stables in the field. In scrapheaps by the motorway, stunted ones, peppered white, wore ornately coloured saddles, were tied to little caravans with cardboard on the windows. Deep … Continue reading Two poems by John Challis
Tag: Newcastle University
‘At the Station’ by Imogen Forster
At the Station For a moment, the sharp smell of roasting coffee is like tobacco, a time when the air in public places floated carcinogenic blue and men in overalls, forebears of the two who are passing me now, would give off a dark industrial reek, as if they were fume-pickled. One of them could … Continue reading ‘At the Station’ by Imogen Forster
‘Sleep’ by Roger Robinson
It becomes clear to you the night your father asks you to wake him up to see his favourite film on TV, and despite cups of coffee bright lights and company he is asleep with his dark rimmed glasses tilted on his face before the opening credits. And there hearing the drag of his snore … Continue reading ‘Sleep’ by Roger Robinson
‘The Babies’ by Bill Herbert
The Babies I’m driving at night through the countryside trying to decide what it is the countryside is to the side of. Since we all already share a perfectly good roadside – perhaps it’s beside this. Certainly there is more to it than verge: it also has an underneath of sexton beetle, a canopy of … Continue reading ‘The Babies’ by Bill Herbert
andotherpoems.com 