Did you wear this scarf for the Piccadilly line? you asked,
because it was blue, and long, I suppose, and no;
but I like the suggestion that I might have picked out
my clothes to line up with our earliest journeys;
and by the way I still haven't told you how closely
I studied the print of this dream that slowly began
to contain you, quietly lifting off glass as the night
fell open upon me and bright, spilling these signs that
modestly marked what you might come to mean to me:
a cornflakes box too tall for the press, as you'd call it;
text messages about snooker and sleep; the sticky
aftertaste of half-sucked sweets; your mouth warm
in the morning; your hand, vanishing last through
a doorway this morning, holding mine as I'm falling awake.