Dear under-neighbours, I live on the top floor


from the ABC set You are very small

When you are asleep
I am above you, awake,
wishing this whole waffle-stack
block would just vanish
and leave us, for a moment,
hung above each other,
at intervals, unbedded,
in our chosen positions:
dessert spoons and ladles,
those crime scene outlines,
those boulders, runners, turnstiles,
those grave-ready and flat
on their backs, then all of us
falling, just like a dream,
but my good God,
this time it’s real.

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Comments

Leonie | September 25, 2008 - 23:39

yes, I think I know what you mean

Aronowitz | September 26, 2008 - 09:37

A vertiginous poem, spack. I like it. By the way, my review of Submarine is in the August/September issue of The London Magazine, if you're interested.

spack | September 30, 2008 - 14:55

Thanks Arono, I'll check it out.

J