clouds that loitered in the greying sky
Thank you to Teo Eve for his vivid contribution to Voices and the poetry competition. Teo is a talented poet who often explores ‘themes of place and identity, and how our relationship to spaces affect our outlook on the world.’ We really appreciate Teo kindly offering his time, effort and talent.
Wilford Suspension Bridge
For Tom
On a Tuesday we knew we’d forget we chose
to stroll across the muddy fields near the river,
concerned that such a drab place could never be
poetic material, especially with nothing poetically
drab to speak of. The clouds that loitered in the greying sky
looked less like dreamscapes than dust
found after months of not cleaning your desk.
Muttering ironic muted verse, we trade perplexed
double-takes at dog walkers and family strollers,
and wonder whether the bridge is not ornamentation
after all. Love’s locked heavily on its iron bars,
and we ask if ours are not the only stories.
Our initials are embarrassingly symmetrical.
You ask me how elitist it must be to see
graffiti as modern art. Tired of small talk
we collapse on a bank, and with fiddling thumbs
wonder whether poems can ever be composed
entirely of numbers. Outsize Czech palaces
that summer we wondered who else had had
the same conversations, and where, and when,
and why.
Teo Eve
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