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Falling Into the Poem

Falling into the poem

I became the poem

and the way you read me,

the way you navigated

the spaces between my words,

breathed me in and spoke me,

was a birth into a world

that was yours alone.

[extract]

from 'Flyby'

I came for you from the dark, unseen,

not telegraphing myself in any blaze of light,

my approach years in the making,

and you, a mystery, an enigma.