Lorna Liffen
Starlight Rendezvous
Curtain down, lamps snuffled,
Some of the dancers
Winding down their legs,
are out meeting dog-walkers,
Across a sea of faeces;
Draw on their Capstans.
A Guinness clock Toucan,
pecks at 11’ o clock; in
an age of nylon -,
And rock n’ roll waltzes,
Madam Rosa wraps up cards,
on the eastern night pier.
Drunken sputniks tumble
down over the displaced,
the small planets, converge;
we sleep on an ex-doctor’s sofa,
here on Rodentia close,
After four whisky-sours-,
Several galaxies are
Breaking out into collisions,
In the dark front of our eyes.
Lorna Liffen is from a family of chemists and palmists, although not clairvoyant or working in a lab herself. First came to poetry in about 1990. She has had collections out from Hub Editions and is currently working on a verse-play.
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