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They saw too much difference in weathers
but the pink light is hazy with brake dust
how that adjective kills it, dim lands cut
and their forgotten cinema torn to kisses
still a latent heat blur did diesel rainbows
all over the dashboard and glassy sat nav
how difference is nevertheless scientific
but in ways that take the subterfuge out
not for lunch, lichen or even late trading
the sucker punch right there in fossil fuel
chipped flint to billions of plastic bricks
they gather themselves for the grand tip
but the kicker is that no-one ever agreed
no-one accepted the cookies in the tank.
Drew Milne’s collected poems In Darkest Capital were published by Carcanet in 2017. Earthworks is forthcoming from Equipage in 2018 and Third Nature from Dostoevsky Wannabe in 2019.
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