SNOWFLAKES FALLING
ON THE INTERNATIONAL
DATELINE
/
UNDER A LOVER’S MOON (26.5.89)
and
Cathy says
‘you’re so quiet,
is something wrong?’
on TV
people move
in mysterious tides
through Tiananmen Square
ads
dislocate
into each other
seals shimmer
across sandpits
towards the Wash
and I’m
screaming inside
Cathy says
‘you’re so quiet,
is something wrong?’
I want to say
it’s over, finally
it’s over, a
beautiful lover
is gone and I’m
sick with pain,
I can’t staunch the
pictures in my head
and I can’t stand
their tenderness
but Cathy says
‘you’re so quiet,
is something wrong?’
while on TV
people scatter
like human shrapnel
through Tiananmen Square
and seals split waves
into shimmering ice
and I say
‘no, I’m fine,
just a little
tired’
Published in:- ‘IRON No.61’ (UK – June 1990)
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