Demolish Dig Design
(following the discovery of iron age remains at the site of the 2012 Olympic Park, Stratford)
Each day a fresh terrain: dirt-yellow ants
bite through soils, their tracked mandibles
levelling hills, shaping plains to make
a new thing - a venue; a stage; a belief.
One lifts a sod, lets sunshine pitch
through a skull's orbit - the world
had spun our star three thousand times
since this bone's last East End breath.
Mighty legends shall erupt from the land,
the hoardings say, once waste is cleared -
derelicts razed, bricks recycled, hopes renewed.
Great dreams must lance from fresh skulls.
(following the discovery of iron age remains at the site of the 2012 Olympic Park, Stratford)
Each day a fresh terrain: dirt-yellow ants
bite through soils, their tracked mandibles
levelling hills, shaping plains to make
a new thing - a venue; a stage; a belief.
One lifts a sod, lets sunshine pitch
through a skull's orbit - the world
had spun our star three thousand times
since this bone's last East End breath.
Mighty legends shall erupt from the land,
the hoardings say, once waste is cleared -
derelicts razed, bricks recycled, hopes renewed.
Great dreams must lance from fresh skulls.
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