Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem

There’s a gap in the railings

We didn’t realise was there

At the end of a jitty I’ve always known

Where still time stands

And the burdock leaves are

awnings we can cover the ants with

to protect them from the rain

I want you to be warm

I want you to never be cold

I’d been orbiting for years, and now

I’ve fallen into a world you’re in

And the main thing is you’re in it

with me and

Earth has not anything to show

more fair

Your intelligent hands, striking chords

inside me and out

Your voice: 

I’m led into my own depths. 

Your dark eyes, bridges over

crevasses I’d only dared squint at. 

Dark into light.

In this new world

The sun glances off angles

differently. 

Better.