Poem of the North

Fifty years of the Northern Poetry Library

From Canto 4

April’s end

The Ouseburn gave wuh up fuh rainbows.
Well, yuh wud.
A while wuh stud to watch
wor puah auld Paula Liz
sink. Iridescence leak.
A legacy o’ blud that wee broon vein
knahs well enough.
Mourned an’ al,

half-heard, half-meant murmurs.
Best wuh cud.

As al gud sympathisers shud.

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