Eight Dream Errata
• It’s not a case of awaiting
your arrival at Drummer Street Station.
We’re together again on the Thames.
• Some anomaly of space and time
below deck and the waterline
makes the narrowboat wider
within than without.
And since I see you
now and then,
you’re eighteen
and maybe ten.
• We turn a corner like a clock,
climb eight steps in a single lock.
• The boat is so stealthily slim
we straddle it, father and son.
It steers itself
like a life.
• We glide, at night, through the moon,
which, as you know, is forbidden.
• The river’s lovely,
wide and deep,
and all that’s passed
clasps hands in sleep.
• The sky is brighter for the storm.
Downstream lies unbroken, still.
Cygnets give birth to their swans.
• You say you love me,
and always will.
• Gary Kissick's latest collection Another Kissing Couple
Has Exploded was published by Gatehouse Press last year.
