ANOTHER TIME by Vicki Naylor

Arts Richmond

Online - 21 August 2020

Last night I saw him again

He seeps up from the floorboards

Wavy, smoky

Beautiful long white locks he has

A musty smell of smoke-filled peppers

Adorns his aura

He draws me to him, he commands

I have to check he’s there

His coal-black eyes call me

Smiling but passionately sure

The room has ch’i – no fear or doom

Just fervour fire and frenzy

from ABOUT TIME, the 2019 anthology of shortlisted entries from The Roger McGough Poetry Prize. Copies of this Anthology can be purchased for £5 including P&P from Arts Richmond.