Yesterday I stepped on the bus
and the driver had your eyes.
This is the final piece of evidence
that your folks are from here.

Ten years you've slept in my arms
and you still can't tell the colour of my eyes.
This is the continual…leggi…

My love for you started in bed
but it was not a red-
light district fling, rather it's been
a long affair of hearts umpteen,
a string of lovely pomegranates
(albeit of a few carates,
shelves all around and overhead,
and books - some read and some…leggi…

Look how the shiny orange leaves
tumble down to the floor,
carrot cake pieces that cavort
in the stomach! I ate my slice and more.

If hunting pink is red,
is a hunting pavillion
vermillion? As if I had qualms
about appropriating the verse in a…leggi…

Foreigners, as a rule
are circus people:
way too lonely to resist a silent siege,
way too noisy to assist one with silence.
But rules are broken,
and accents are spoken in:
so why not just applaud
and stay on to see what's next?

Next, is the…leggi…

Üdvözlet! Let's dive
into this language I did not
pick up yet (but give me five
days, and we'll rephrase this I bet),
this language you forgot.
I loved it from the word go,
from that radio
broadcast of Béla…leggi…

During the Napoleonic wars
Britain was isolated
from mainland Europe:
people became collectors
of seaweed and root vegetables,
and this tradition seems to have continued
well beyond the scope
of that need. Laver bread, sea kale, black
salsify are…leggi…

That of all people, you
should be impervious to the tale
of persistence and survival
told by the brass doorbells
(Middlemiss, Massie, McDonells)
and their old long forgotten mysteries!
Routines pass, last
less than their material supports,
which…leggi…