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Hyde Park Winter Rink
We circle as sharks
on the Hyde Park winter rink
our eyes like lasers
I audibly bleep when they meet
We both go forwards
not getting anywhere
we pass with differing intervals
I only breathe when we pass
Some laps are flawless
some laps are clumsy
some laps I nearly take some sucker down
some laps I kiss the ice
I feel your eyes lift me to my feet
I feel them brush the slush from...
Friday 13th December 2019 1:49 pm
Lifted
You blew across the sky
a bird, black against the cloud
your wings beating hard
the way I was beating too
And for a moment…
I felt so alive
You slipped through
grazing my sooty skies
these pearly stars
squealing in your wake
And for a moment…
I felt so alive
Was there something more
that we were supposed to do
some other experience
we should have expected to share
Lifted...
Thursday 3rd March 2016 11:06 pm
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