-Cross to the rivers-

Let's cross to the rivers, the Lee

and Taunton junction; eye-line to the wall, the eastern

face of Brayton Point Station

erected on the engineered peninsular 

splitting the rivers.

Exposed beyond the tree-line, the power station
muscle’s its way through,
steam driving the great turbines and periodically,

as valves open to high-pressure, quakes

the uneasy alliance it keeps with the populace.

Daylight, and it churns and boils

and smokes coal-fired

through its great standing stacks—

More the beautiful when approached lit-up

like a cheap motel in the dead of a winter's night

from a long and lonely road.

Swansea