Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Mile End

When trudging through exit after emergency exit
through carriage after dirty empty carriage
through the litter and white light of a whole tube train
through the black of the earth in the black of a tunnel
hundreds of metres under the city of London

wondering what changed world awaits you at the platform
wondering what war has started, which lives lost,
where the blood is spilt, what buildings are gone,
what poisons swim in the air, what will the survivors do
how will the survivors be different, how will you -

and then find the platform functioning as normal
(it was just a problem with the signals)
then it is time for a quick confession:
you were not afraid. Just curious.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

A little note . . .

This is a housekeeping post, with a few necessaries.

1. Applies through out:

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2. The posts on this blog used to be published under the pseudonym 'Antony M'. That was short for 'Antonym of Poet'. However, something changed in Blogger and now they all appear as Tom Chivers, linked to the other blogs I currently write at. Great news for stalkers, less good for me trying to be clever.

But, so be it.

3. However. Please note, if currently if you search for 'Tom Chivers' you get a London-based poet at the top of the lists - but he is *not* me. I do not have anything to do with 'penned in the margins,' 'Keystone,' 'confluence,' or 'Cherwell'. I have had various poems published in various magazines, and the like - but none are on the web, outside of this blog, that I know.