9 Mar 2005, 3:51am
Writing
by David


details (42B)

the in-flight movie and chewing-gum, and time,
and a hydrogen bomb named Clare,
and Steven J Hawking’s A Brief History of Time,
and her arm on the armrest,and owls in the clouds, and gray graves,
and a child’s shirt with a butterfly sewn on the pocket,

and the blue summer house, and the white cliff,
(the beautiful house, the furious cliff)

and (a voice over the PA) the
keyhole, porthole, song what-is-it
that knocks, Let us
go then, This Way This Way

and
we’d not refuse