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Christmas (Remove filter)

View from a steamed-up bus window

As my rattling Transdev bus chugs on

In its grumpy rush-hour peregrination

Through the already darkening day's end

Of Bradford's murky northern outskirts,

Condensation-glazed lad-scratched glass

Metamorphoses the winterworld outside

Into a semi-opaque panchromatic fairyland.

 

As dozy daylight dissolves to torpid twilight,

Mundane suburbia subtly transforms i...

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Christmas

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