Sunday 1 September 2013

Windscale

The toadstool towers infest the shore:
Stink-horns that propagate and spore
Wherever the wind blows.
Scafell looks down from the bracken band
And sees hell in a grain of sand,
And feels the canker itch between his toes.

This is a land where the dirt is clean
And poison pasture, quick and green,
And storm sky, bright and bare;
Where sewers flow with milk, and meat
is carved up for the fire to eat,
And children suffocate in God's fresh air.

4 comments:

  1. This is the only poem I can remember a bit of studied it for o level in 1984. Thought it was amazing.

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  2. Simple in its language and structure but powerful in its message

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  3. After over forty years of working at the place in question, O have just discovered this masterpiece

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