At the End
of the Road,
a River
of the Road,
a River
By Chris Jones
Your purling black heart
gives up petals from street lights
one silver lily
At the end of a recent reading of the poems, the Haiku below was projected,
word by word as a mirror image, onto a factory at the back of the 'Gardeners'
pub in Neepsend. The words then emerged from their reflections in the River Don.
The maps are a collage of images produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map
service. Images are reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey
and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.