Explore the City poetically		Walbrook A site of water you can walk on The Walbrook stream originally flowed between Ludgate Hill and Cornhill and entered the Thames at Dowgate (pictured left).
				This is Walbrook its once was river now channelled underground thick blacktop flowing where once the water was. Not Many Know the City Not many know the City when deserted (Not many who have not its love) - Lombard's blind mausoleum of bankers In the crackling silence of evening, Or the typist's moon admiring itself In the blackbird sheen of a nightlong Thames. (The city's smell is a river's smell When day's car-borne fumes are gone.) Copyright William Oxley, 1981 From The Notebook of Hephaestus and Other Poems (The Lomond Press)