Wednesday, 3 February 2010

On Meeting a Poet



A sharp intake of breath.
The still frame flickers.
My dusty head full of

pink, shapeless noise,
a budding melody unsung.
I am afraid

to have a voice of my own.
A hangover croak patchily recalls the
lioness roar, the room hushed.

Peering whites on a black
background fixated. You stole
the creaking and the fidget.

Pin pricks, brimming eyes
and thumb-sucking. I drank
the anguish and tasted nothing.

I stepped out into the slippery night,
my wounded lungs oblivious,
devour shards of darkness.

Smoke filled exhalations
and clothes that reek of
stale consequences.

Memory lingers like a
jet stream on a clear blue sky.

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