Ashford, 2011
5am
Stark, ugly wasteland.
Sunlight taints the rotting walls,
Dust pillages doors.
8am
Children screeching, cars
Revving, congestion flumes flood
Dizzying bus lanes.
1pm
Haggard faces scout
Secondhand goods, wondering
What lives they held once.
4:36pm
Chaos: they flee school gates.
Already they want to leave
Somewhere far removed.
10:55pm
He roars into night,
Pounding darkness into pulp – why
Won’t he love me back.
Delilah Dennett is a writer and performer from the UK. Her work has been featured in The Dial, Cambridge Notes and West Trade Review, amongst other publications. She recently completed her first novel and she is in the process of writing a one-woman play called A Mother’s Monologue. You can follow her on Instagram at @delilahdennett.