2005/06/08
Some other
Some other poem you carry across the page
her bodies in weight across the bus
a smile lights up the screaming
not so the fie and fo of
god’s punishing throughway
into this body of mine
ours across the sun
faded shield something like this
what? some lyric denizen of thought
was loyal fairs and night
dream pouch piffle shout
she fell against me on the bus
thrust slight of her youth
as I brushed past or moments before
when she’d come back
for tea we spoke
our fingers laced up
finally when I ‘d said stand up
seconds later I knew there was
no chemistry what could I do?
She flicked her horsewhip
against her thighs two
weeks later saying
or not saying
sigh sigh
stay stay and
I was worried about
a step
what step was that?
A step to her kisses
round about her bounding
of me
and the one I wanted .
By
Clifford Duffy