The Vauxhall Cavalier

parked in the gap,

but gently ticked over,

while police shifted people

nearer the attack,

an unintended blunder.

 

You wonder

if the troubles are done,

but men hurrying back

across fields

to a waiting vehicle,

aren’t two lovers on the run.

 

Peace gone again,

another letdown.

An unearthly bang,

an eeriness,

a darkness,

come over the town.