Covent Garden Garden Gone
By Kathy Pimlott
Demolition of community Garden
Copyright Covent Garden Community Association
Community Garden Endell Street 1978
Copyright Covent Garden Community Association
Flowers blossom in the community garden
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Endell Street Festival in the community garden, 1978
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Children playing in the Japanese garden, c1975
Copyright Covent Garden Community Association
Now it’s a blunt blind pile
of nothing-to-do-with-you,
something between Lubyanka
and the Great Pyramid at Giza.
For two blue summers
it was our bowl of worms,
where brick-born babies aired
raw rash and fat knees, toes
curling to the thrill of grass.
And flushed children,
unlatched by clotted phlox,
Sweet William and sweetpeas,
filched unfeasibly sweet peas,
dangled from the bridge to tease
frilled axolotls with the pale gape
of throttled snapdragons.
Our hopeless defiance in Nelly Moser,
Scarlet Emperor, pursey lupins,
where caterpillars ruminated on
the costliest lettuces in London.
This page was added by
Hope Wolf on 19/06/2013.