5 July 2025

to the poets, and one by one…

did you come my way at night
while i snatched at sleep and did
not hear or did you come by day

when i was already faded in your light
or did i pour a bath of thought and
enter it with you (in book form

we assume) and turned the pages
one by one then two by two
so hungry for your words to course

through what was left of me
my arteries my veins my heart
my mouth my head my life?