You are bright as
shop windows in the rain
a wooden ark that
so easily falls down
hard-shaped animals
rigid games
of words in squares with
values concomitant
on the difficulty of meaning
I will lift you high
to careless shoulder blades
with a monkey-puzzle swing
your arms a python around my neck
knees almost a horse
jumping traffic-light puddles
shiver, smear, break like glass
one two three and stop
choking (only a little)
on your glee’s foregone restraint
desperate as plastic
landing the way Armstrong did
in a world gone black and white
gum boots down
time dismayed
all the colours up
