in Abbotsford <br /> <br />Rusty corrugated iron fences <br />concrete slabbed <br />loading bays <br />of old factories. <br /> <br />In pitted courtyards <br />disdainful weeds <br />sprouting <br />gaudy and tall <br />through cracking tarmac <br /> <br />purples and yellows <br />mirror-imaged <br />in oily-puddled <br />potholes.<br /><br />M.L. Emmett<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/backstreet-beauty/
