Brick, concrete, rises, falls, where stone once stood.
The clock moves on.
A trench is dug to shelter guns
Or children
And look, a Saxon sword is there.
How long before that hole throws out
A wheelchair plus its occupant?
image adapted by Kavana Ramaswamy from image by Font Awesome Free 5.4.1 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com/, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons”
Liz Thompson is active long term as trade unionist in civil service (social security/universal credit, 25 years), then volunteered in community centre ,Leeds, and is a member Unite Community (Leeds, Wakefield, York branch). She is an ACR member on the editorial board.
