Listen Up

from Northern Sketches by Gary Bunting

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Listen Up

Football boot studs on concrete floors
One of the sounds I adore
Reminds me of being young again
The whirring bicycle chain
Tick-tick-ticking around the cassette
Freewheelin’ into the setting sun
Pinball machines and penny arcades
Handclaps and finger snaps
In the vinyl grooves dug out by the needle
The spinning coin on the tabletop
The pop of the warm toast arriving
The striking match, swoosh!
The stubble scrape
The coffee percolates, drip by drip by drip
The rip of the orange peel exposing the naked fruit
The clink of the pool hall balls against one another and
The rolling journey through the table’s labyrinth
The pen gliding across the surface of fresh clean paper
The crisp crunch
The clunk of the railway track
The tip-tap rain
The click of the camera
The rollerskate wheel on the graffiti curve
The coastal birds searching for morsels
The bottle smashing in the bottle bank
The town hall bells chiming
The sliding bowling balls down the alley
The thunder rumble
The bumblebee buzz
The growl of the motorcycle
And the prowl of the silent cat
Compacting snow underfoot, white
The to and fro of the longing tide
A beck, trickling over rocks and stones
The blown horns, a city, alive
And when the last letterbox closes
And my leather belt whips through the loops on my trousers
And the buckle rattles when I hang it on the door handle
I get to hear my favourite sound of all
And that’s when my love laughs
From the bottom of her deep, deep, heart

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from Northern Sketches, released October 22, 2021

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