Blind date by Ros Barber
Here, the creature you dreamt
while your blood was sleeping.
I am half bone, and half the other thing,
that part of you
you won’t own up to.
Ìý
As long as you like, I have been here
under you feet,
and as long as you like
I’ll stay.
Perhaps.
Ìý
The best of me I have hidden away
from the music
that drifts from the dance,
in a place that none but the locals
know how to pronounce.
Ìý
You cannot imagine
what I am about to say to you.
I am astounding.
I am nothing
like my sisters.
Ìý
— Ros Barber
