Hi Bob,
This is nothing less than marvelous. A gem of a poem.
Thanks for the read this morning.
CW, Mary :O)
--- Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Instant
>
> This may not always be so – and so I say
> that if your fingers should prize chocolates
> from other boxes in evenings watching tv films
> and it’s some other body that breathes its slowness
> in a different favourite t shirt, and your sweet hair
> falls in such a silence as he moves slightly,
> stretching his slippered foot till it touches
> your instep, your ankle, your calf,
>
> and if this should be so, and I imagine it all again,
> will only I be the one who listens intently
> as streetlights strengthen the dark
> and hear a bird singing fiercely
> as it would in a foreign land?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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