Category Archives: Architecture

Quarantine

Posted on March 26, 2020 by douglasthompson

ONEIRONAUTS Cars and trains shall rust windows cake with dust while lawns will grow and go unmowed grass push through the tarmac pavements concrete foundations crack crops go unharvested in desolate fields life blossom but no longer under human hands … Continue reading →

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Renovation

Posted on September 14, 2019 by douglasthompson

Caught up in the every-moment fevered minutiae of minutes, seconds swishing my paint-loaded brush against the clock, worrying the dust the money running low sweat on the brow then suddenly: All is stilled by the sound of church bells from … Continue reading →

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Barking Circus

Posted on July 23, 2017 by douglasthompson

This is only my preliminary version of the artwork, the great David Rix of Eibonvale Press shall be working his magic on it in due course in order to arrive at a final cover worthy of us both, but… as … Continue reading →

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Rain Town

Posted on May 13, 2017 by douglasthompson

  Rain on the attic roof tender footsteps of youth remembered and all the unconquered possibilities of immaculate Saturdays waiting in glistening wrapping my beloved city where the crowds ebb and flow on station platforms like the systole of a … Continue reading →

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Architect

Posted on February 26, 2017 by douglasthompson

Go, when I am dead stand where I foresaw you would on garden steps to watch the light of dawn brighten the edge of a roof whose shape dipped or lifted to the sound of inner music which grew within … Continue reading →

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Warehouse Windows

Posted on January 12, 2017 by douglasthompson

Drowned world of blue memory broken warehouse windows in fragmented reflections moons sail like flickering white flags darting fish play among underwater ruins the chimneys stand guard smoking guns vandals throwing stones become doves wings mapped frozen in afterimage punctured … Continue reading →

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The Rusted Millwheel

Posted on January 7, 2017 by douglasthompson

Look now how the old mill from which the town takes its noble name lies abandoned, boarded up its water wheel no longer turning stout heart and turbine of a golden age rusting hidden behind overgrown bushes the river rushing … Continue reading →

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Railways

Posted on July 22, 2016 by douglasthompson

Let me sleep as railway sleepers sleep in domains of foxes urban wastelands twilight zones of chimneys abandoned warehouses disused tunnels overgrown sidings. Let me sleep in the dead dream of Victorian Glasgow overcome with moss decaying brick neglected rhythm … Continue reading →

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Goodbye London

Posted on June 24, 2016 by douglasthompson

GOODBYE LONDON Goodbye London my love my sore feet my hot afternoons and solitary mornings wandering around Liverpool Street Station those cobbled lanes spilling views towards the river the Shard teasing veils of cloud the looming Gherkin planting its reptilian … Continue reading →

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The Heart’s Labyrinth

Posted on May 2, 2016 by douglasthompson

Last night I dreamt of the islands of forgotten loves half Venice half Morocco I followed and ran through labyrinthine streets always losing glimpses caught of those I’d left behind in life whose feelings I hadn’t guessed or whose words … Continue reading →

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