- 2016
you looked him in the eyes
then pulled back to scan
everyone watching you
'the world's such a comedy'
you chirped
in a marble eye
of archetypical seduction
your braids embraced your sack
ahead of a summer holiday
in Milan and the Lakes
It's hard to imagine you
ten years from now
-what can possibly go wrong?
loved (and not just 'lovable')
with a need
to respond to this spur
your adolescence waning with age
then life, unlike a comedy,
full of pains, knives at the back
seething
with a new spring of emotions
[2016, previously unpublished]