Homing
Our sink, stubbornly as it was last night –
streaked mesas of plates, precarious
at the stainless brink, their tide-marks
of ketchup. And your mug run aground
among a mangrove of knives. Smalls
left in the machine, sectioned by its lens
into a stack of pittas. Radiator tuts, resists
its hot syrup rush – and still the whole sweep
of the clock before that small suspense
at the lock: your keyed-up slither of metal
in oil, fingering its deadbolt target for just
the right sound. That slotting home.
streaked mesas of plates, precarious
at the stainless brink, their tide-marks
of ketchup. And your mug run aground
among a mangrove of knives. Smalls
left in the machine, sectioned by its lens
into a stack of pittas. Radiator tuts, resists
its hot syrup rush – and still the whole sweep
of the clock before that small suspense
at the lock: your keyed-up slither of metal
in oil, fingering its deadbolt target for just
the right sound. That slotting home.
Mario Petrucci’s debut collection, Shrapnel and Sheets, is a
Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is the 2002 winner
of the Arvon/Daily Telegraph International Poetry Competition
and a recipient of an Arts Council Writers Award. His latest
collection, The Stamina of Sheep, won the Essex Book Awards
best fiction publication 2000 - 2002.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is the 2002 winner
of the Arvon/Daily Telegraph International Poetry Competition
and a recipient of an Arts Council Writers Award. His latest
collection, The Stamina of Sheep, won the Essex Book Awards
best fiction publication 2000 - 2002.
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