Whistling through a hollow straw, stirring
A chuckle of ice-cubes round the base of a glass.
Doorway's looming,
I turn for a final hope. The sway
Of your gaze, the eyelashes and their persuasions,
The hue of your iris: coded, blue and hidden.
I resign to my coat and the thick wool rubs my shoulders.
There, there. Let's go home.
Pressing through the rain, heels click the
Wet pavement, and the cablight draws near.
Lurching, now speeding, home, through that slick
Glow of 5am - tangerine, dark, bright.
Driven, past mainstreets,
The damp neons run an oily rainbow.
5am: the last desperate breath, the plead before
A cold winter dawn. And there it is - it was -
Dark in the lane, two shapeshifters consume one another,
Searching mouths for fulfilment, solution.
Their hungry howl as the rain torrential -
The midnight tropical -
Runs down their curved backs.
Perhaps, for a moment, they found something.
A ruby tucked down a raw throat, a jewel -
Now the brick wall, now the soggy newsagents, now
Traffic light: they're lost. A couple of foxes tear at an
Empty carton on the kerb.
* * *
and i walked to the place where we once stood
thinking about the last night
why i cried
when you left
sitting on the concrete steps
and i crossed to the house where we once lay
and i promised to not tell a soul
april is
the cruelest month
it gave me teeth marks on my tongue
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