Two suns appear

Running rest-day ...

... here's a Michael Hofmann poem, taken from the pictured 1999 collection:


GONE
for Jamie McKendrick

The usual roses on the dado, the curtain, the bedspread
and the oriental picture with cranes,
clashing with the usual magnolia on the walls ...

The television swings into the room on a hinged extension
like a box camera or a boxing glove
or something at the dentist's.

The radio and Teasmaid are perched on shooting sticks,
the two-handled diamante neon bedside lamp
is an apple of discord - all mine!

An hour's sleep on the back of eight hours of drink.
From the street comes the beep beep of Green Goddessess rversing.
Two suns appear in the mitred window.