Overgraduate

In amongst the browning pears

And teabags drowned in colonies

Of mugs, I make my nest

Muffling the mordant sun

The kindly hum of giants' music

Slows the day's arrest.

Underneath my windowledge

The sea-sore student tribes ascend

Those ever-steeper steps

And I remember clambering

In grinning knots towards the top

Alone but for the rest.

Self-indulgent, self-obsessed

We co-collided

Never co-possessed.