Walking Poems

walk through salford

frosted sunlight cobweb shimmering windowpain in dog ear d dirty buddy-holly squalor. beautiful window pane frame glass & manic mounted cds wild & sun tickled feels scribbly new-born in the shakingfeet, rolling, rolling hands reaching from their grubby roots & changing record side. who drew moustache on the back? Who wrote original coral record fucked? Has Alan Jones 10 Deanshirt Road ever been to a rave? Is this all i can think as the wavey filthy spidery windowsunstreetplace does its best to look its best in her nicest pink & laugh out loud silly frown

walk in peel park

rain radio drips on roof drizzly commercial cars blueredgrey pindrops drill working sawand dentist swishswash engine red van moaning windscreen wiper moving engine growling rain plops it drops on raincoat and paper car bibs playing bad dance music man with goatee asksdirections high whirrring trafficchhssessss growling tigers crashingmetal van splashing puddle-people moving sounds mornin cars and roads & sounds of waves and hissing hissing splashing hissing moan and grumble hungry heavy patter of baby deer & bald men & men with phones & angryengines with speed&moving wheels aliens landing chirpin birds chatterin birds & dripsdrops greyslab litter & silent drops & cutting grass squarking blackbird tortured animals & wild children slippy slopes squidgy feet on wet grass whistles & percussive gardens refugees in trees & germany noisy bloody birds talking nonsense yawning me kicking bin warriors tanks & lawnmowers dead grass and violent faces of walkers kicking balls & nativeswithsticks & foreign accents pink-van-puddle-splash-not-being-abstract-tapping pots and pans squeeking boys & dogs smiling & breathing heavy feet crunching munching twiglets & dogs like steamtrains & people like dogs rattle snake birds laws & signs & chases like cagny & lacy waterfalls in the lake district getting wet and imagining fairies ears hearing splash boats are sticks and rivers are streams

another walk in peel park

tender paving water drips with babies sleeping cats & songs of sleep & dreaming & needing the toilet by the sea &waves &jungles &
civil service depos & echoing barks of shambolic dogs they hav no rhythm blind dogs blues songs chopping grass men & treackle toffee
pudding smell of cutgrass & hospitalwomen & menpissing speakers walkytalkies springy legs goalies & keepyuppies safaris wellies hats riffles machine gun fire duck duckpond & crab fishing for logs