8.00 am British Summer Time: Amersham to Finchley Road
      Betjeman’s England rolls past the windows.
      Autumn’s blood orange confetti on trees.
      Graveyards are tended beside old allotments.
      People are planted beside old sweet peas.

      8.46 am Eastern Daylight Time: Boston to Manhattan
      An arrow from the bow of Paris to Achilles’ heel, a silver scudding bolt       that penetrates
         and plugs. Brimstone, fire, gold and crimson, billow belching flame.
      A silver scudding bolt from out of a clear blue sky.    

      8.00 pm British Summer Time: Finchley Road to Amersham
      Now the sun’s set and the Empire’s long gone
      but ripples from bow waves are still lapping shores.
      The Mandalay Road’s now in Myanmar
      and Betjeman’s England is England no more.