Intro-Outro

This is the first day, sloping up before you like a whale:
takes a while to start trekking, takes a whale to put
you in perspective.
How reflective, how self-reflexive: me I walk, to you I talk;
and the day becomes the moments you’re told will stay
with you.

This is the moment where you say you want it:
take off the claws and use the giant padded paws,
soft and dextrous grab.
Start the plait: make strong the ties that will lie
underneath you; the roots of the ropes you use to
hold you.


© Sam Rodgers 2009