London Bridge - Photo by Nicholas Goodden |
Hail our bridge
the tallest bridge in the whole world.
Made of white marzipan
—beautiful, mouth-watering marzipan—
it stands in the waters of the river
on giant stilts of fruit and cake.
At times, old insecurities come to the fore, hand in hand with wistful memories of past lovers, loss, death and grief. At other times, I have bitter quarrels with God late into the night about sin, redemption and child-death; and when solace will not come, in despair, I run for shelter to life's true confessional—poetry.
London Bridge - Photo by Nicholas Goodden |