This first poem happened as it says. I did wake up trying to remember the poem I'd written just in a dream.
I dreamt you last night
placed
us both in fragments
from
meetings and songs
and
woke in the darkness
attempting
to recall
the
poem I had written
sat
on that hillside
in
the rain
not
getting wet
Here's one that arrived in a rush and still needs revision.
I know that eventually
time
will catch up with me
pin
me to the bloody floor
in
some way I will not like
let
alone have foreseen
pay
me back in kind
for
each night
I
crept in with the milk
leave
me marooned on a chair
my
tongue stuck on repeat
Again it is what it is. There are no hidden layers of meaning.
Sometimes that's ok.
Oh, creeping in with the milk is something my father used to say when I came home in the small hours. You need to be old enough to remember when milk men delivered milk in bottles very early in the morning.
Here's me being very vain. Kathryn Williams was amazing. She's on tour at the moment and if you get the chance go and see her. Last Friday was so good. I'm off to see her again on Sunday in Exeter.
Until next time.
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