When an albatross crash-lands in a dream
Long ago I saw an albatross fly
head-first into a dream so fast so
hard it penetrated half a mile deep.
Inside the crater
a wreckage of feather and bone
remains which over millennia became
this fossilised skull you’ve found
and which, slicing open my right forearm
you press into the wound
holding the edges until they knit.
‘We’ll keep this for later,’ you tell me
‘We’ll talk about it then.’
Deborah Harvey is co-director of The Leaping Word poetry consultancy, and has an MA in Creative Writing. Her fifth poetry collection, Learning Finity, was published in 2022 by Indigo Dreams. She is currently writing poems on the theme of estrangement.