"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. - W. B. Yeats

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Countdown

Countdown

The hours

In six the sun

Will rise up slow

And sweet

Eight

In the air above

London

Watching the runway winking

Farewells

Countdown the days

Tomorrow in Dublin

Friday in Glasgow

Saturday the highland grasses

Swallow knees and wave

with gentle sharpness

And there might be a man

With a lilting voice

Breaking like waves

Over me

And there might be a girl

With copper hair and

A body like a boy.

And I’ll still be counting down

To someplace warm

And safe

And drunk

And happy

No comments:

Post a Comment