Blue


from the ABC set Stuff

The car silvers through
a slow bleed of light.

In the thin 6pm drizzle,
we wind past
fog shrouded pedestrians.

Each caught in a brief
soon forgotten
second of their lives,

not knowing we share
this moment, this pause
at traffic lights,

the same half-glances
at rusting skeletons
scattered on the Clyde.

And we watch the rain
turn twilight blue
and stare at
blurred reflections
on shadowy windows
without recognising
who we are.

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