2 DECEMBER 1995, Page 50

Flying Over Clifton Suspension Bridge

Up here we are lifesize. The setting sun Is too. We are all coming in to land.

Down there is I. K. Brunel's bridge, as planned, Shrunk back into its model, clean and glowing.

We cannot see God's tiny creatures going On to the middle of the bridge to drop, And not a single toy Samaritan Bustles about persuading them to stop.

Patricia Beer