Daily Archives: May 17, 2009

STORY TELLING

Somewhere in every tale she looks me straight in the eye
to say with defiance that she was a pretty girl back then
and, returning to her narrative, looks away once more
into a wind-whistled, distant world, hidden among the years.

She closes her eyes the better to see it and, suddenly, her skin
becomes transparent, showing the young woman inside.

– John Bailey, May 2009
Cilfrew, Glamorganshire