PD Lyons’ most recent poem to appear here was When I wrote new songs and you would listen out of friendship, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men had Ears. Today’s poem was Inspired by the music of Helen Jane Long.
Porcelain
By PD Lyons
By PD Lyons
cold spills of rain
magpies searching with the light
always dreaming until dawn
when I wake and think you’re here
coffee on the stove
pale light over the stove
I would often think of you
dark mornings just before dawn
standing in this spot–you’d make mine with hot milk
the pain of coffee much too hot to drink
the ache of winter haunts my hands
when I close my eyes I cannot see you any more.
cold and spills of rain
the music porcelain plays again
