Villon in Millerton by James Norcliffe
for Leicester Kyle 1 a plank bed in a gully and a woman there with a buckled mouth my hand plunged deep in her pigfern turpentine and tea-tree the sour-smoke smell of damp coal in the scuttle and flat beer on the bench once I stood so tall on a stolen Triumph my hair streamed behind like a thousand freedoms now I stand two miles above flatlanders