Poetry Book

Chimerical City: Poems of London

 John Light

Book cover




(33 pages, stapled, card cover).
ISBN 1 897968 37 X    £4  US$10; US$11 air




Summer's deep penetrating heat
Has emptied every square and street
From Stepney Green to Bow.

Behind the stone and brick facades
A secret people play charades,
Pretending life is rich.

While far above them through the sky
A silver aircraft flying high,
Screams "Life is for the rich".


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