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BARCELONETA: LUNCHTIME The pillowing of early afternoon Drops flat and stifling on The grid-ironed, Short and narrow Dockland streets. High-sided, damp and swarthy tenements Reject The red/and yellow/red streaked sun; Retain The tongue-sweet smells of drains and tom-cats' piss; Repel The lottery ticket seller's blind muezzin wail. Urchin cats provoke a Muzzled puppy and A child's hand grasps a Scragged, unwilling kitten; Weeping clothes cascade from Iron-balustraded balconies Where a caged canary sings As women work unseen.
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Peter
Noel was born in England in 1944. He has worked in business, journalism and theatre, and
studied English and Modern History at Oxford in the 1980s. He has lived and worked in
eight countries. For the last eleven years he has lived in Barcelona where he writes and
teaches.