europaplatz
: Steve Willey in London
These are the Coordinates
If there is no square named
Europe in London
only Europe Road, names are coins
that order us. Henry Grace à Dieu.
Bronze cannon. Rolling: 1512.
Our relationship
a shining antagonism. A master
scheme. Sheltered
housing, flooded dry docks
in the name of safety
John M. Moore. 377 homes.
two 12-storey
slab blocks. Anglers. Masks: 1972.
Au bout du petit matin …
Port-au-Prince traded,
the colonial wars haunt roads
that square off different poverties,
St Domingo House, flanked
at right angles by 8-
and 9-storey blocks,
launched after ships
HMS Europa: 1783.
Dear Nicholas Trimmatis
step down over
rubble. Future cleaved. CBG.
luxury European
property market
638 convicts on board
400 cases of admission to hospital
38 deaths.
Mr. Peter Bossy
Surgeon of the Warrior hulk
you are now the panoramic view
of all our suspicions
off Woolwich. 1841.
Belliqueux, Penelope, Sceptre
outside the parish
Steve Willey (Jahrgang 1984) lebt und arbeitet in London als Lyriker und Dozent für Creative Writing und Englisch am Birkbeck College, University of London. Seine dritte Gedichtsammlung "Living In" wird in diesem Jahr bei The Onslaught Press erscheinen.
a hollow steel
barrier keeps
London in its floods
of pain to forget
its fourth-rate
squares. Slaves
now to a panic of cormorant wings
out of rushes, pursued
by a crow
territorial at the end of sunset,
this is not what is
or is needed: 2019.
