I <3 Cities

Mar 9

Listening to

a guitarist play Sade sunlight is pouring in

on the tram we rattle

through,

places to change my life and

it is not Sunday but

I think thank God, thankful for this –

Though my natal city lives,

in me and through my voice,

I recognise this place

as much as the one I left,

however love has made me

so far in this far-off world,

the blue of the sky is solid

when the bay opens out for us,

I watch the city children

walk, go on and stop,

I am among them walking

to the end of the round green headland;

Before the bridge I call you

again as the day turns round,

I call you back again, and the day turns round,

again –

Hannah Kirwan (she/her) is a poet from South London, currently based in Oakland.

She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley, where she is now working

towards her PhD in English.

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