Estuary - by
Waking in the small hours the night
/ before you go into hospital, you press
/ the palm of my hand to your cheek
/ so…
Waking in the small hours the night
/ before you go into hospital, you press
/ the palm of my hand to your cheek
/ so…
Whenever neon trickles down
/ to meet a city drain,
/ I think of you on some wet roof,
/ a cobbled son of men –…
You prefer the murk of details to the vision complete,
/ incident to…
After 60 years my gums are not so good.
/ I dental-floss them in the one-sex toilet.
/ Returning, clamber over wife and daughter
/ And…
Let’s say you had three wishes.
/
/ I never know what to wish for.
/
/ Okay,
/ I’d like to be a mayfly. Sleeping
/ for…