Deryn Rees-Jones
working with Basic Skills Adult Learners Group from Blackpool & Fylde College

If night has a thousand stars

then surely this is Paradise:

500,000 light bulbs

like a halo round the town.

And sky and sea might almost be kissing

to the tune of the laughing policeman

as we leave the Oyster Rooms for the shadowy dunes,

the shunt of the trains at Starr End.