Carol Ann Duffy - Talent
Oct. 8th, 2013 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricThis is the word tightrope. Now imagine
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath.
There is no word net.
You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.
All due credit tokabarett for posting this on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetree recently. I'm having a moody cow of an afternoon and resort to recent bookmarks rather than anthologies.
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath.
There is no word net.
You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.
All due credit to
kabarett for posting this on poetree recently. I'm having a moody cow of an afternoon and resort to recent bookmarks rather than anthologies.