Many reports of spirit sightings since the city fell

A dead horse’s head, flak-flensed

Wide-eye like a fish sight lens

Wreathed in supernatural blueberry flames

Leant against a gate, like a no-tautness workman on cigarette break

A ghostcoloured girl singing a strained lullaby in a ruin-shaded lane

She wheels forth and back in the customary rhythm of relaxation

A one-wheeled pram razed to its armature by the blaze.

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