It's your second PoetryPostcard.
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Plate Tectonics.

Uncle Tom one bonfire night in 1983
took a mallet and smashed a shining sheet
of treacle toffee into an archipelago
and created the Greek Islands,

hitherto a landlocked mass
glued to the mainland as to the back
teeth. In that deathly dark and drizzly
uptown night in Leeds,

sparks flew in an alchemy
of molasses and crystallised sugar
as we danced around the fire
and raised high the burning effigy

as the seas loosened their grip
and caramelised. The night he made
was new land seen, even heaven
in the jigsaw of the Aegean,

the moons of our pudding bowl haircuts
raised like burning caldera
as we shuffled our names in the pack,
an island chain, reading back.

 

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