GOODNIGHT MOVES

GOODNIGHT MOVES

a game
of structure

and sequence, could
not be more linear

but everymove
of yours
ends up
  in checkmate

those knights
working hand in glove
with their
Queen;
   Lancelot-Guinevere
complicity in everything

L there
not for
     “love”
certainly not
for “learner”

and me
    with the foresight
of a pawn
watching front,
back and centre
overlooking
   the diagonals

outflanked, double
enveloped
    shanked
in the rear

your game a brutal
thing of beauty

seemingly all
of the cuff but
some inner mathematics
lies at
the heart of
such execution tapidly realised
planning (you
could figure
   it out
naked
could play it blindfold)

and me
   back in my box
my crypt of a crib

such great
goodnight that’s all
see you
   in another life moves

hit
   queenside, kingside, by
file, by rank

mastermind mistress
at the heart
of everything
   pulling all the strings

dominating ftom
the centre (and
oh
   what
a centre!)

every opening in
the book
     sheer innuendo!

what
    ecstasy to
one day
win

when every
loss such a pleasure.