The Coloured Experience Exhibition At The Albany / For The Woman I Met Today Who Told Me What She Would Wish For (Poem)

                    The Coloured Experience Exhibition at The Albany (1st - 7th October)

For The Woman I Met Today Who Told Me What She Would Wish For

Give me a wish

and I will take it where the sky takes care

                                                        of everything,

I’m old enough to remember the world quieter,

    so give me another wish and I’ll be younger,

always with enough sleep and tickets in pockets

                                                   to take me onward,

beyond woods through days that are green before

they’re black

                       and I got no yellow on my spine.

             

Another wish and birds will envy

the smells I carry of other places,

they will envy the warmth

                                    in my air,

they will envy the view I found of our city

and the route

            I took to whatever it is I love.

Another wish and I won’t get my mouth

                                              out of her kiss,

the girl from the stars that fell to earth

     to discover

                       the planet I am.