INdex and first lines

​​A
Adventure     "Wild calls of abandonment"
Agreements     "Ireland’s glossary of peaceful terms"
Albert Bridge     "Starlings over Albert Bridge"
Avenues     "This avenue of portcullis trees"

​B
Belfast Baps     "Great big floury baps"
Blackbird of Belfast Lough     "Behold, some minor bird"
Bogwood / Bog Meadows     "Recovered, I begin the slow, unsure process"

C
City Hall     "They’ve bought the stars down from the sky"
Cavehill     "A cragged crown upon Belfast"
Congestion     "The clouds break like departing ghosts"
Crumlin Road Gaol     "The tunnel"

D
Dangerous?     "Tales of having to duck"
Denial     "'Never mind', it should be one word"
Drinking     "Belfast | will soon drink up and go home"

E
Early Closing     "All the shops are closing early and this town is like an old western"
Escapism     "A funnel: a hot funnel"
Expansion     "See Ireland’s bog meadows"

F
Farset     "Down in Belfast"
Flags     "Adorn the streets in equal measure" 
Folk Museum     "White chalk settlements: dust really"
Futurology     "Is it time to lay the bombs down"

G
George Best Belfast City Airport     "Call it Sydenham Airport"
Ghettos     "It is dark and grey and obvious"
Ghosts     "doses of hatred"
Grief    "Can you hear the ever-wail?​"

H
History     "The wolf has been with us for a while now"
Home     "You may hurl me to Mediterranean tides"
Hope     "The important thing"

I
Inspiration     "I have looked for inspiration"
Intimidation     "We have come to dance"

J
Junk Mail     "Empty letters, asking please"

K
Kerbstones     "From the smoke the trees have been cremated"

L
Lagan     "I sailed on your ship"
Lagan Meadows     "Held in the pan, bowing down to the water"
Legends     "At first, a hoax, cruellest hoax"

M
Markets     "Bring in the unidentified and the lost"
Meteorology     "Two pairs of socks, I tell you, and I still felt"
​Minnowburn     "…and there was you"
Motorways     "The creek of rubber"

N
​Nature     "The gorse is burning freely"
Nighttime     "Streetlights of distance"
Noise     "Sure there’s nothing left in this ghost town"
Nomads     "She used to live in seventy-three:  it’s bricked up now though​"

O
Optimism     "With rivers of steam shivering past our soles"
Ormeau Baths Gallery     "We bathed, yet may not bathe again"
Outsiders     "It was your great grandfather"

P
Peace Walls     "When you smash walls with sledgehammers"
​Politics     "An old fisherman is teaching two young boys how to catch fish."
Posturing     "Mad dogs, the lot of them"

Q
Questions     "how can I help?"

R
Rain     "I saw a piece of rain-soaked paper"
Remembrance     "These are my people"
Rivers     "So sure, serene"
Roads     "The road out of this town"

S
Scents     "A twitching, quivering stream"
Shipbuilding     "1859 – 1879 SS Venetian"
Shoreline     "On a small beach"
Stranmillis Embankment    "This memory is mine, mine, mine alone"

T
Taxis     "Black taxis fighting"
Territorial Pissings    "Crouch under the flag parade"

U
Underachiever     "There is despair everywhere"
Unusual People     "They mostly are found with beards and headphones"

V
Vandalism     "Where we use to buy the Sunday papers"

W
Wanderlust     "Sky develops watercolour grey"
Welcoming     "We cosied out our own alcove"
Woodlands     "The way inside is always thin​"

X
Xenogenesis     "The police woke us at two thirty"

Y
Yak City     "It isn’t gossiping in Washington"
Youth     "I once went to meet someone"

Z
Zealots     "It’s feckin’ cold in Belfast, Jesus"