The Fall
Paul Nash
Last leaf left the mercurial sky
Coveting this electric light, fleeting
What you felt then, apricity
Flooding your saturnine skin
It took light years to find you
Buried here among streets, leading where?
Kicking leaves into the ambivalent night
We are all kicking leaves
In towering ossuaries
The nomophobic stain the stairwells
With dead eyes pressed to glass walls
Watching the city drain away
Below, below, deeper still
Where will you go?
A panther stalking shadows
Down the sewer’s foetid throat
The ghost of Anne Frank House
Caged inside a blacked-out room
Nearby a church bell is striking time
And you will stop to look up
And watch yourself
Fall to Earth
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© Paul Nash, 2008
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Paul Nash is a poet and songwriter from Bristol. He performs in North Sea Navigator which he formed in 2004 as an outlet for dark music and poetry. He performs solo and sometimes with a band, which has included Charlotte Nicholls, Tim Atack and Neil Johnson. Releases include ‘Alibis’ (2004), and ‘Make the Blacklist’ (2005). “Edward”, his excellent duet with Rose Kemp appears on the Silber on Silber compilation.