Let us imagine a Summer courtship with fleeting evocations of Philip Larkin in this poem of companionship and love. A quiet villanelle from our poet Colin Pink on this Day 537 of the daily poems.
Reclining figures
Lying side by side, together, beneath a white sheet
we are still as figures carved in timeless effigy.
In companionable silence we feel the story is complete
love settled in and conversed in each heartbeat
flexing its muscles and birthed us perpetually
lying side by side, together, beneath a white sheet
These sympathetic strings are tuned with perfect pitch
to harmonise every discord within our symphony.
In companionable silence we feel the story is complete
no need to invent more chapters when all is sweet
and wrapped about us clothed in brilliant clarity.
Lying side by side, together, beneath a white sheet
absorbed in murmured rhythms, with sounds so fleet
droplets land on keys, resonate notes of sonic rarity.In companionable silence we feel the story is complete
artisans of our history in colours no one can delete
woven on a shared loom threads that blend destiny
lying side by side, together, beneath a white sheet
in companionable silence we feel the story is complete.
Colin Pink
from Colin Pink The Ventriloquist Dummy’s Lament, published by Against the Grain Press, 2019