Suspension

By: Roger Hansford

 

To feel again

the anticipation of a holiday,

tempting like a fat meat pie.

 

Thin crust of tiredness soon sliced:

the first taste

of freedom.

 

To discover again

one’s identity:

enjoy a view

 

read a novel not a textbook,

and drift the meld

of timeless days.

 

To wake again

without a plan;

play music before breakfast

opt out of rush hours.

 

To be again

like telegraph wires

drooped between thin poles

 

relaxed, low-tension loops

glimpsed from cars.

Quickly gone.

 

Winner, Simon Elvin National Young Poet of the Year Competition 1999

Winner, The Waterside Arts Festival Poetry Competition 1999