We
are still driving
in the car
along this thin line
telling day from night apart.
You lean and kiss me,
and it’s the first time
and the hundredth time,
and this moment
perfectly balancing light with dark
hovers on the edges of eternity.
It’s the first time
and I’m taking you by the hand
to walk through Tavistock
then Russell
then Bloomsbury square
minutes before their gates close
seconds until I finish these lines.
It’s the hundredth time,
the hundredth line,
the hundredth fragment of a story to be told;
and yet words
sound like the only
(time)
at all.
Spring Equinox & World Poetry Day
2023.
Photograph: Detail from Russell Square, London; 22 Oct. 2022.
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