Monday, October 11, 2010

Meeting poets (Eunice de Souza)

MEETING POETS

Meeting poets I am disconcerted sometimes
by the colour of their socks
the suspicion of a wig
the wasp in the voice
and an air, sometimes, of dankness.

Best to meet in poems:
cool speckled shells
in which one hears
a sad but distant sea.

(Eunice de Souza, from "Five London Pieces")

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