We began making
Plans from rough imaginings
Nothing in writing
~
CLP 14/09/2020
Tag: Conversation
On Pleasure ix
Company of friends
laughing, travelling, sharing
We are one, not I
~
n.b. We live together; we die alone.
~
CLP 09/09/2020
On Pleasure vi
Glint of needle glimpsed
within Life’s giant haystack
ignites straw-thin hope
~
CLP 05/09/2020
On Empathy
My sister
My father
Slipped into our conversation
Silently tears filled my eyes
You placed your hand on mine
Gentle
Kind
~
CLP 07/09/2020
On Pleasure ii
Unbridled laughter
carried by telephone lines
to prised open heart
~
CLP 04/09/2020
Back to School
Who was the teacher? Who the pupil?
It had been longer than I dared remember
I sensed I had forgotten everything
I feared I was unable
Out of my depth
Unqualified to be on such a course
But I was frightfully excited to be with my new best friend
You were saying…
No, after you…
with all the nervous good manners that stilt conversation.
~
Eventually we dropped the small talk and began the serious business of studying
each other’s flickering eyelids, parting lips, breaths
the tones of moans and involuntary movements
the wildly unfocused looks
and deep-rooted smiles
for all those hours in that badly lit hotel room,
that was greatly improved by the beam of the full moon
cast on our discarded clothes.
~
CLP 28th August, 2020
