the iron presses out the wrinkles in my shirt
if only
I think
if only
but then
the iron brushes against my hand
wish
WISH YOU WERE HERE
If I wrote you a postcard
I would write
‘wish you were here’
perhaps in capital letters.
WISH YOU WERE HERE
is a banal codification
used when people have nothing to say
but the situation demands a message.
This is known.
But
if I wrote you a postcard
and wrote
‘wish you were here’
perhaps in capital letters
you would see through the context
strip away the convention
and see the message as it was truly meant.
I wish you were here.
The darkness hides
The darkness hides the miles; they’re gone.
A whispered word
and a wish tied together fly –
tomorrow spring birds will sing.
Wish
He saw a new star in the dawning sky so made a hurried, heartfelt, wish. It was a light reflected in the bus window. Nobody told him.
