This poem is taken from Stand 220, 16(4) November - December 2018.

Jack Debney Three Poems
In Rue Port Said

‘A rose-red city half as old as Time’

                                        – John William Burgon (‘Petra’)

Glancing out the taxi window
I catch the evening flush of rose
transforming block after dull block
as if for now this is Petra,
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