This poem is taken from PN Review 269, Volume 49 Number 3, January - February 2023.
from ‘The Regulars’
i.
His fist is as soft as a block
of butter, shaking
around two pound coins
and a twenty pence piece,
to be exchanged
for the first pint of the day.
Under the tap it pours
itself, clouds, settles
thick and brown with
a white halo the width
of forefinger and thumb.
His skin is the jaundiced shade
of pages in antique books,
and the ink of a decades-old tattoo
is blurred beyond comprehension
...
His fist is as soft as a block
of butter, shaking
around two pound coins
and a twenty pence piece,
to be exchanged
for the first pint of the day.
Under the tap it pours
itself, clouds, settles
thick and brown with
a white halo the width
of forefinger and thumb.
His skin is the jaundiced shade
of pages in antique books,
and the ink of a decades-old tattoo
is blurred beyond comprehension
...
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