CHILDREN SLEDDING IN THE DARK MAGDALEN GREEN

 (update: the benches and poem have been removed by the council)

CHILDREN SLEDDING IN THE DARK MAGDALEN GREEN
John Burnside

We have studied the colours of night:

loan-path ambers, hedges dipped in bronze,

jade-tinted snow

and nothing is wholly true

till we believe:

the sky is glass, the distance is a train,

angels are sealed in the gaps

of walls, their fledged wings

spreading through mortar,

and under the lamps, possessed by the pull of the dark,

these children hold the glow

of the imagined,

perfect and hard, arriving at copper or gold

by guesswork; trusting what’s contrived in flesh

to echo in the rooms of gravity.

POEM NOW REMOVED.
Description:Pinned to the side of a bench on the green.

Geotag co-ords: 56.453, -2.991813
Date: 10.06.14


(These benches have been removed and the poem along with them!
NB to self - don't attach plates to movable objects.)