Between

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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