Holland Street West
We are two, but we lie folded together,
a map no longer needed.
Outside it rains:
the cars make waves
but we notice only to notice how
outside is a far-away place.
We fit
contour to contour, frame to frame;
we are a land to ourselves,
our own shelter. All night
as we lie sleeping, waking
the taxis pass like ships.
Judith Taylor lives in Aberdeen. She is the author of two pamphlet collections, Earthlight (Koo Press, 2006) and Local Colour (Calder Wood Press, 2010) and her poem “Daffodils” was a runner-up in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2013.