Bridges

 
The bridge parapet was high
at least for me,I was eight
The same in Woolworths
I could not see the sweets
all was knees and shoes,
mahogany,  glass and lino.
There was another bridge
cast in iron parapets
through which I saw the river
it shook as each bus crossed
red and double-decked.
I never trusted such a bridge,
give me stone,of the earth
laid by masons' hands
stone and three feet thick
which did not shake
as buses crossed
red and double-decked.