David Lowe

T-Square

Red-brick house fronts, white-brick decorated; 
tiled roofs, green-dusted, undulating 
street-length like a rippled tarn of slate, 
crazed and chopped in segments by
Venetian blinds. The slowly fading light
strikes edge effects, creates a pattern book
of incidental charms, of unbuilt unconsidered follies.

Victoria rejoice! Your least-considered street still runs 
aslant and almost at a normal to your railway line. 
Dimension of repose with axis of activity:
the residential crossed with the nomadic, 
well-content potential with kinetic restlessness,
the settled and displaced thuswise thrust 
together then held fast within geometry.
 

David Lowe’s writing includes poetry, short stories and two novels. In 2022 he was awarded the Diploma in Creative Writing, with Distinction, from Oxford University.