Rio, Dalston

Leaf 289 – Looking Back

 

Marc Gooderham - Rio Cinema, Dalston

Following on from the leaf posted previously, this poem is the second in a series of verses to follow, which look back to when I was living in London’s Stoke Newington at the turn of the century. That’s a strange phrase! – In my mind, that really means the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century. Or, at least, that’s what it always used to mean, I suppose. Perhaps it would make more sense for me to have said ‘the turn of the millennium,’ or ‘Y2K.’ – It was a good time to be young. Life was challenging in a lot of regards, but I look back on it now with a large degree of fondness.

 

 

RIO, DALSTON

 

Strolling home

from a summer matinee,

under peach-hued clouds.

 

 

 

 

Marc Gooderham - Rio Cinema, Dalston