Erato
It takes ages. Tell me what it is you’re after
she says, when finally I get through.
Rain, I answer, rain that falls softly
in a garden, and on the Aegean,
the noise they make together,
trees in the rain, and the way rain brightens
the green leaves and the blue tiles
shine like new. Is that everything? she asks
and I say, yes it is, for the moment, yes.
Jeff Skinner’s poems have been published in anthologies and journals, most recently in Poetry News, Allegro, Drawn to the Light. He was commended in the recent Sonnet or Not competition. He volunteers at his local food bank, reads, writes.