David Green

David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I publish booklets of my own poems, or did. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become. It keeps me out of more trouble than it gets me into. I hope you find at least some of it worthwhile.

Sunday, 14 May 2017

Acis & Galatea, poem



Acis & Galatea

It seems strange now that I was wrapped
up in the poetry of love,
but I was only human, trapped
with only such that humans have
of world and time and marvelled at
the infinite that made me weep.
What will survive will not be that.
I followed her like a lost sheep.

If love is cruel, the glimpse I had
of happiness was just as brief  
for violence is all we know
for sure. But as a river god,
transformed now, I’ve taken my leave,
teem, dense with amazed fish, and flow.