Billhooks Poems - Poems about Billhooks

...OLD TOWN PAST Gone: the Market where cows sheep and pigs brought telling perceptions The images, noises and smells of the farms to the town The tweeded farmers with leathery limbs and faces And......

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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each passing train Web of steel and of steam entwined vil......

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...OLD TOWN ELEGY The bridge still spans the road - with what design? The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign And barely more trace tha......

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