I'll Know I'm Home by Vanessa Napolitano
Give me an ugly Northern market
under corrugated roofs
where scarves are two for £5.
Give me a drizzle that turns
the pavement a murky brown
the sky, a blank smudge.
Give me a sausage roll in a paper bag
that dissolves into crumbs down my coat front
and a man that calls everyone love.
Give me your chimney stacks,
a derelict factory, pound shop,
a chippy. A church so old nobody goes.
Give me green hills seen through
a dirty window on the train.
Give me the North
through a veil of rain.
Originally published in Issue 15 of Stanchion.
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