Train Along The Humber, Thrice 2022

This set of haiku were written throughout 2022 and the trips made on the York to Hull rail journey.

York, here great tracks cross

Roman meets Viking meets you

History marks the path

 

Awaiting connection

Selby, a nowhere platform

Where no one alights

 

North bank, flood plain dry

Gravel washed with detritus

Yet still, the heron

 

Empty field, lone byre

Nought moves in the hinterlands

Except crows who caw

 

Four white towers still stand

Monument to the future

More broken promises

 

Dirt on the window

Becomes part of the landscape

Transforming the view

 

Arriving late, Hull

Real reverse Whitsun Weddings

Larkin is leaving