REGARDING MS SMITH

you sailed up to me
read me a chapter
to alter
my thoughts
about narrative
change the narrative

I smiled
genuinely appreciative
of your considerable acumen in
respect of your art

whilst
as poet, rooted in
my practice
a practice so ancient
you might
deem it instinctive

and so
I let rip, felt the syllables
possess me
catch he, take her
spirit her away

across some horizon to
who can say what location

how she travelled: rode, danced
walked, ran
I don’t frankly care

Published by Damian Garside