Manchester


when in me the tide comes watering deep
kinetic, electric: jolting thought
and i see the things that could have been.

when deeply jesting the waves do make
a tattered, bitter and laughing scene
admonishment has brought to me:
soured, bloated, sheltered years
the same way the wood that drifts
comes drifting near: it lingers.

when comes in me a jolting thought
the candle lit to a halting heart
by the words of her poem:

she's had a few.