Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was Shine (June 2012).
St Vitus’ Dance
By Steven Minchin
five feet in front of me
the shocks from your shoulders
Shake
all of your frame
small and trembling
I want to put you away
back in that part of me
that I once had to
Rip
open and throw
you out of
before this far off
fountain where as you
Tremor
and it starts
to reverberate
through this hole
in me I thank
God
for magic and making it liquid
then suddenly
thrust us over
the edge and fill
our lungs
Healing
another reductive force
another ending