Crossing the Millennium
Bridge suspended from
twin cities separate
inseparable
we pause
an unreliable
unrecreatable childhood
memory recurs stepping
plank to plank along
Ryde pier
neither sea nor land
and
watching the turbulent
threatening water
beneath
disturbed
a cormorant
settles on a floating
boom
an artificial island in
the Tyne
she and I momentarily
fixed for ever above
between
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