IT SHOULD BE SINKING TO THE GROUND

Don't you think that the statue of

Philip Larkin at the railway

station in Hull looks a bit

too tall, too lean? Suspended

in the last moment before

it would leap into the air? A bit

too fleet-footed for a man

whose spirit descended, burrowed -

not soaring like a gull over

the ashen waves of the North Sea

and the cranes lamenting in the

harbour, but going deep

down in the soil like a mole,

throwing up to the surface its

discarded discoveries...

01.11.2017