Rooms - 1

the 8 bus and curiosity
suggested looking at rooms off
Kilburn High Road where pigeons
strutted puffed up on dried puke

three grey beds and a cooker
pure white fat in the frying pan
brown cloths pinned on the windows
a stack of suitcases some scattered
clothes and plastered boots
on top of the fish eye tv
a curling diploma for 3rd place in Latin
American Dancing, Thomastown, Kilkenny

and the grey tea-brown poem that ends with
"There is a land that is fairer than this."