First the bridge, the library, the new community centre, park offices, the bark-surfaced kids play area with artificial hill and climbing frame like a Frank Lloyd Wright construct. Rough kids after the war. A downed Messerschmidt. Bent my arm here once. Now it's cool Asians and Afro-caribbeans who always score.
Top end are the karate mystics, body rings, tattoos, jugglers, and guys with shaved-heads and dogs.
Someone with a tai chi sword is slowly slicing through the form, the energy all inside, moving like a man underwater. A pensioner from the rich Ty Draw houses opposite reports him for unsheathing a weapon in a public place. It's my religion, the practitioner claims. The investigating officer replaces his notebook with the same liquid movement the swordsman used. The first St Margaret's Church in 1867.