So I just got back from a trip to London with my friends and I had a great time! Our itinerary included: visiting Buckingham Palace and Big Ben; the Natural History Museum; Covent Garden; Planet Hollywood; Camden Market; the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical; and the Harry Potter Studios Tour! Here are some photographs from my trip along with a little poem I wrote inspired by some grafitti I saw near our hotel.
London Moon
The
swinging city’s spherical milk star shakes awake and rises in the dome;
it pours
rippling liquid light reflections onto the dark, forever buzzing cobbles.
Crowded
with millions of creepy crawlies by day, deserted by nightfall.
The
frozen starry air so crispy it could snap, like gingerbread.
A white
eclipse ignites the metamorphosis of the wolves.
Their
skin slices and blood oozes in great glugs,
fur
stretches through follicles, dark claws split their fingernails.
Wails
ring hollow through the startled streets, shattering glass.
The eyes
of houses pace back and forth as the bricks shiver.
Absence
of the sun prompts the spread of ice on the pavements;
crackling
with the shredding sound of a sharpened sickle.
The thick
smoke that slithers and coils in clusters of silver scales
escapes
the dogs fluffy jaws and circles their tracing paper skulls.
The
foil snakes tie around, entice, grip even the youngest pups.
Prowling
in packs at midnight, they target a length in a Skirt.
Creeping
silently under the towering clock, curled tight to pounce.
Paws
and tails let loose like arrows in open air, exposed claws for the Girl.
Her
head spins round with the snap of a clean neck break, Her
pointed
ears spring upright. Her shrill fangs gash through the furry napes.
Our
poor wolves yelp as the white poison penetrates,
courses,
contaminates their maroon blood.
They
scatter and scuttle back to their alleys like rats as She
wipes
dripping red from Her lips with the back of Her hand;
a
black smile. The beasts scurry away, tails between shuddering legs
and
melancholy, past a white roughcast canvas vandalised with: London Moon.
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