by Zoë Skoulding
This poem is from a collaborative work-in-progress on the Adda, Bangor’s culverted river, with the photographer Ben Stammers: www.bangoradda.org
Five kufic dirhems of the Saminid dynasty
travelled the Volga to the Caspian Sea, clinked
all over Europe in pockets and leather purses
till someone hid them under what’s now