Newman at Edgbaston
The rays descending into
A high ceiling room
Revealed the motes rising
And heavy clopping must
Have made itself heard
A thoroughfare right outside
The new oratory house
Romanly dominating
Athwart the town-bound traffic
Collegiate calm fostered
On manufacture’s fringes
And tall windows commune
The two as John Henry
Sits at letter-writing
.
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December, 2017.
Amethyst Review 