Rodney Wood 

 Farnborough, Hants

 

 

Rodney Wood worked in London and Guildford before retiring. His poems have appeared recently in The High Window, Orbis, Magma (where he was Selected Poet in the deaf issue) and Envoi.  His debut pamphlet, Dante Called You Beatrice , appeared in 2017.  You can find more information about Rodney and his work at rodneywoodpoet.wordpress.com     

 Poem completed on 24 March 2020

AND SOMETIMES THE NIGHT

Ryoji Ikeda, Spectrta III, 2008, Installation

 

already nights last for months

and sometimes months are oceans

and sometimes the arms we hold

are never the same warm arms

 

and sometimes there’re found again

a few nights or months or years

later with mops and hand gel

if you can get it of course

 

the night has done this to us

we pretend we remember

we remember that sometimes

we tasted oceans they were

 

so much fun and we were drunk

and ate, laughed and fucked

but now there’s no one around

cars buried shops boarded up

 

and we’re depressed because

we’ve read all the books and seen

everything on sky and netflix

and anyway there’re boring

 

and sometimes we smile or cry

and sometimes sometimes sometimes

in a night there pass many

months and years and oceans