HIGH NOON

The tree shadows the black tar-
mac road like a high noon gun-
slinger. The light in the wind
almost draws, evil is only evil
because good is only good.


I can almost hear those lines
Echo from before the troubles
in Belfast. ‘Shane , Shane
come back Shane’.


Shot from a matinee cinema
on the Crumlin Road, the film
rolls on into peace-time
and no one is to blame.

High-Noon