Preston Bus Station 1964
Grain warehouses   East Float   Birkenhead
A fine-grained photograph in black and white
Two whippets’   slink     slag   steel  clinker   cotton and coal    sinter
YTS   spare time    the time-honoured need to retrain
          Two Bootle girls in curlers up to the nines for the best part of half the night
An overlooked pint of Tetley (flat on a bar) somewhere south of Leeds
The sound of Clitheroe rolling in the mouth     on the tongue

The turn   the club
A van not quite anywhere on the M62     uncoupling  its doors

The wild slow release of birds