Poem
Jack Underwood
Sometimes your sadness is a yacht
Sometimes your sadness is a yacht
Sometimes your sadness is a yacht
huge, white and expensive, like an anvildropped from heaven: how will we get onboard,
up there, when it hurts our necks to look?
Other times it is a rock on the lawn, and matter
can never be destroyed. But today we hold it
to the edge of our bed, shutting our eyes
on another opened hour and listening
to our neighbours’ voices having the voices
of their friends around for lunch.
© 2015, Jack Underwood
From: Happiness
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
From: Happiness
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Jack Underwood
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1984)
Jack Underwood is a regular participant in the London poetry community, and lectures in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, as well as working as a tutor for The Poetry School. As a reviewer, he has contributed regularly to Poetry London and The Poetry Review, and he was a founding editor of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives. He was chosen as one of the first four...
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Sometimes your sadness is a yacht
huge, white and expensive, like an anvildropped from heaven: how will we get onboard,
up there, when it hurts our necks to look?
Other times it is a rock on the lawn, and matter
can never be destroyed. But today we hold it
to the edge of our bed, shutting our eyes
on another opened hour and listening
to our neighbours’ voices having the voices
of their friends around for lunch.
From: Happiness
Sometimes your sadness is a yacht
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