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‘I chalk poems on brick walls’

20 October 202615 October 2024 by Chris Fewings

Sometimes I chalk poems on brick walls,
one-day wonders rain scrubs clean at night,
and shout to passers-by to come and hear.

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  • January 1
  • After the exhibition
  • ‘I chalk poems on brick walls’
  • A place to keep my shadow
  • The Solemn Fool
  • A nightmare in his head?
  • ‘The flame of outrage leaps…’
  • ‘Let him be loved’
  • City’s Edge
'This scribbling keeps me steady' alludes to a line in a villanelle by Theodore Roethke.
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