Friday 17 October 2014

Rye Lane


Sleek and red the sixty-three
bicycles and vans converge –
Peckham’s traffic mingled in
Cacophonous proximity.
The noisy vendors’ thrust and glare
flows to the pulse of Africa.
Beauty is on offer here –
false eyelashes and human hair
mobile phone accessories
scrawny chickens and breadfruit
the ocean’s harvest, fresh and dried
the emerald of the library
giant yams, cassava root
the church that tells us Christ has died.

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