where/when

Very early morning, train to Leicester, poems. A long walk in the part of the city I don't know. I found the Cathedral and sat inside for a while. "Are you visiting?" "In a manner of speaking." The word 'love' was in the stained glass in the little chapel. A window was missing. Philip Larkin, you might have liked that after this I found the Roman baths, now almost gone, museal. Inside the Cathedral I remembered the church I saw in Stevenage and the chapel at St Mary's (Nottingham) where I sometimes go to sit. I like Anglican churches because there is rarely anyone inside. I felt overwhelmed (as if by love? a huge love, beyond language) and could feel the weather outside moving through the city, first sun, then rain, then sun again, and so on. I noticed the shape of rooflines and where windows opened.

One day I will give you a tour of Leicester, I took enough pictures today for that.

And then I came home.