Langworthy

By Richard Mather

Fog wraps round chimneys stacked in brown brick, settles on satellite dishes. Apparitional smog irritates the eyes, disturbs the intake of breath. Salford bleached by rain – a wet wind blows through a line of washing. Plump, two pigeons perch on a fence as humans flock to the new Tesco. Fog frost, the smell of petrol, the peaks of Quayside apartments vanish in the aerial grey mist.