Laughter
across the harbour
and
the lights wink out Morse code
on
the new refurbishments.
It’s
not so late but suddenly again
I’m
a long way from home –
being
right in the heart of it,
as
if in a foreign country.
And
that’s somewhere I may well be
if
you choose to believe the headlines.
Portrait: Marina Shiderova; text: Tom Phillips; photo: John Fru Jones