Tube Station

Portrait of A.S.J. Tessimond
A.S.J. Tessimond 1902–1962

The tube lift mounts, sap in a stem, And blossoms its load, a black, untidy rose.

The fountain of the escalator curls at the crest, breaks and scatters A winnow of men, a sickle of dark spray.

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