Wilderspool Causeway

My guitar was resting on The Siege of Krishnapur.
From this angle, too, it cast a thin shadow
on Virginia Woolf – blocked I couldn’t see what:
Malcolm Bradbury and Michael Chabon.

To the far left, the slice you can see on Zoom:
Ishiguro and notebooks: A Bit of a Blur
above God Inside Out and Floodlit Dreams.
Tomorrow could you balance on The Best of Betjeman

just to the right of texts on the Metropolitan Line,
Wessex and London satellite towns with Original Sin
on the Sussex Coast. A history of Berkhamsted
grazes Susan Utting, occludes Arcadia, essays

on Modernism, William Golding, It Shouldn’t Happen
to a Manager and unread Dubliners.
Now the webinar is over, light has left the spines
indistinct under the sky’s grey procession.

Now I can just see Wisdom, The Art Book, Organic Church,
a book on conversations the author wants ‘fierce’,
A Field Guide to the Birds in which Red Kites are scarce,
Woodbine Willie, Charles Ramuz and Ariadne’s Thread.