Workers stand at the perimeter fence, rain on their jackets, hands in their pockets.

Rubble, medals and ribbons half‑buried in the grey air.

The sound of breaking timber. A trooping of new colours.

People watch in silence as another section of wall gives way.

Dust settles on shoes, shoulders, the path to the public road.

spring rain
a flock of seagulls
circling the mall

Paul Conneally
Leicester, March 2026

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Photograph: Leicester Town Hall Square, Paul Conneally, 12th March, 2026