Saturday, 8 October 2011

Starfish Soup

(for Nadja)

She broke in and
on the table under a sheen

was a bowl of starfish soup
waiting to be eaten.

One finger she dipped in,
one finger in the warm tureen.

Come little stars
she heard her lips say,

come all silkily come
onto my finger and dance.

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