Alyson Hunter

Regent's Park

From Nightbus. Adelphi Publishing, 2008.

...Love does not have to cross my brow,
for a few moments together,
is enough, to feel more right -
when everything else is wrong.

It is a small picnic on the grass
set under a shaded tree,
on a hot summer Sunday
in Regent's Park.

It is the quick kisses of a child
before squirrels are chased,
and you lie there, letting the sun
take away the thought of wasps...