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Vicky Wilson, Canterbury’s Poet of the Year 2007-2008, has been published in Acumen, Brittle Star, Equinox, The Interpreter’s House, Logos, Orbis and the Second Light anthology My Mother Threw Knives. She is a frequent guest reader in London and Kent.
A plume of water spurts to heaven
outside the Divine Order of Seraphim and Cherubim
where gold turbans and sunset robes congregate
to clap hands in praise
at the toddlers who’ve never known a beach
dipping dirty Jellies in the kerbside swirl
alongside a gaggle of preteen girls
who stretch out fingers, shake droplets like diamonds
from bony wrists
as a white boy with no shirt
loops his bike through the spray, one eye on the gum-chewing mums
bending over pushchairs, revealing Calvin Klein thongs
to the van drivers who share a smoke
in front of the taramasalata factory
and laugh at the young woman in the Ford Fiesta
inching her way through a free carwash
as the first boy racer leans on his horn
and the Italian language students pour
from their hostel to marvel at this fountain without marble
and coo at pigeons feasting on Bombay Mix
while we neighbours forget
the sullen crush of the morning’s bus
and pool stories far into the cool of the night.
Poem published: Poet of the Year Anthology, Canterbury Festival, 2007
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