How close is the gap between the cliffs
As if you could hop off all of a sudden
But the people wall between us and we have no skiff
Only you understood the little things as it was your skill

That last corner before you disappeared has a particle left
You became smaller in the same way of the repellent seagull
Disappeared as he does above the infinite sea
That last corner is where I kept your last particle left
Waiting to give it back only to you when we are no more cleft

I walked with her
from The Blocks
to the book shop
later we drank
homemade wine
in her crumbling house
I smelled sweet cakes
and Japanese love poems
    Have you met Edith?
    she asked
   (as have many others)
but I only had eyes
for her.