‘Now reach across the dark’
— Roy Fisher
There is a certain way of talking
about light globes.
I will write
a big poem
one day.
Reflection
encounters reflection:
the window, the dusk,
bats flying out of
the mirror.
The desire
to make it more
than it is.
There are prizes
for this —
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