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first
prize winner, and published in the
Yorkshire Post,
Yorkshire Open
Poetry Competition 2007;
in pamphlet collection, Skylight,
Smith/Doorstop Books,
2009, ISBN 978-1-906613-08-2
In Another Life
I
would have liked to take you to Pyramid Lake.
If
you went there you’d understand why.
It’s
something about the greenness.
All
those different greens
upside
down in the still blue water.
And
the quiet. Never such quiet anywhere.
You
could hear a bird’s wings,
the
needles dropping from the pines,
the
sudden somersaults of fish.
And
the smell of snow makes you test the air
like
one of those fallow deer at the edge
of
the lake, sensing danger.
I
would have liked to sit with you
on
the driftwood and just look
until
it grew dark and a bear appeared perhaps
and
we didn’t move.
It
would have to be autumn;
I
don’t know why, maybe for the colours
which
are more intense for a while
like
lovers who are about to part.
I
like to imagine you there in your green shirt
lighting
a cigarette, the quick, brave flare of it in the dark.
Carole Bromley
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