Tuesday, 19 October 2004

A LITTLE BIT OF VERSE

by Indie

 

by Indie

SIREN SONG

I phoned from time to time, to see if she`s

changed the music on her answerphone.

`Tell me in two words`, goes the recording,

`what you were going to tell in a thousand`.

 

I peer into that thought, like peering out

to sea at night, hearing, hearing the sound of waves

breaking on rocks, knowing she is there,

listening, waiting for me to speak.

 

Once in a while she`ll pick up the phone

and her voice sings to me out of the past.

The hair on the back of my neck stands up

as I catch her smell for a second.

Hugo Williams

 

 

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