8.   A l b e r t   P a r k :   A n  A s s a y .

 
 
a)

We meet at the tree 
She, brilliant, black hair and cloudless blue eyes.

I hold her to me.
 
b)
 
 
The centre of her lenses are black. I speak to them. I pose:
-Who are you really?
 
c)
She presses her face to me.
d)
She considers:


 
 
 
Shedecides to simply say
-I am a black, a palette. Bright dyes spin off me 
and cast the city. I push it out.

 
 
 
 
 

 

'And the city?'
 
-I pull it in.