BELFAST
Steel ball swings
remorseless.
Mortared dust
shrouds plastered remains
and jagged brick.
Papered stripes exposed
to bus weary gaze.
Secrets, birth, death
invaded:
Depeopled.
Concreted windows
Concreted doors
Tenanted by skeetering rats
Unafraid, multiplying,
The undefeated.