Thursday 3 January 2013

57 - A Sea of Sleep

sink to the bottom of a sea of sleep
with no knowledge to pick
no handle on which to strain
but a satisfaction complete
and a comfort constant shifting
with balanced give and need
like hard welcome rain
sinking in a sleeping sea


My lovely friend Eleanor recently reminded me of a poem I wrote many years ago, one she remembers but which I'd almost completely forgotten about. Since I'm back in Guernsey at the moment, where I have a number of notebooks from as long as fifteen years ago I decided to see if I had any decent stuff in there. This random scrap is part of a poem I wrote in Taipei in 2006.

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