In the library,
you fell over me.
You said, So sorry.
I said, Ouch.
Later you fell over me
on the couch.
Things were falling into place,
thigh to thigh and face to face.
Earth was falling
through the night
falling into birds and light.
As the sky unrolled
another day,
you kissed me,
then you walked away.
But walking,
I’m told,
is merely
falling
controlled.
*****
The always delightful Margaret Ann “Maz” Griffiths published in a huge range of voices: formal sonnets of wildlife and of the illness that finally killed her, blank verse rants against warfare or injustice, sad songs of the female loss of innocence, flippant anti-establishment sarcasm about the British Royal Family…
‘Grasshopper’, her 350-page collection of poetry (and also one of her nicknames) was assembled by fans after her death and published by Arrowhead Press in the UK and Able Muse Press in North America. It is readable and rereadable. I post the occasional poem in this blog.
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