poetry snapshots: adrian green

Business Breakfast

On a blue September dawn

the tide ebbs under London Bridge.

We walk across – a crowd

alive but hypnotised.

So many left undead

for croissants and a cappuccino.

And in the knowing,

unknowing,

and knowing again

of things we never

thought would matter,

breakfast sages

read our fortunes

in the coffee spoons,

project their fantasies

on office walls.

Later, on the Circle Line,

the salesmen with their laptops

watch a couple sharing sushi

from a plastic box.

Adrian Green

Previously published in Well Versed, poems from the Morning Star (Hearing Eye, ISBN 978-1-905082-42-1)

and Chorus and Coda (Littoral Press, ISBN 978-0-9550926-7-1).

About Adrian Green:
Adrian Green lives overlooking the sea at Southend. A former editor of SOL and reviews editor of Littoral, poems and reviews have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. His current collection, Chorus and Coda (ISBN 978-0955092671), is available from the Littoral Press.
See more at http://www.greenad.co.uk/ or listen at http://www.myspace.com/chorusandcoda