Could It Just Be

Dense sensations inside a farm animal

Announce themselves

At mutant scrapyards

Wraparound bilious

Each of it good

And full of emphysema

Rat crap, debris, icing cake

Old gone-off rope

Fine stuff

Whom calm invades

Edging into some

Boat-locked febrility

That’s wearing tied boots slung

Round sixth-sense shoulders

Braced for sunsets

Over apples from the vine

Could it just be

Yet more likely

At the heart of the ash-heap

You’ll simply rattle along your

Loose piano-frisking self

Now that it’s not that what counts

Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.

Poem reproduced by permission of the poet.

This poem is an excerpt from ‘Chimp Jus’, a series of poems created for the Stephen Cripps Bursary Award and to be published later this year.