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Lingering
For Louise and Bob
by Kay Kidde
Both boats move out, slow like swans
Onto the evening
Slicing through blue silver water
Heading for the sun dance that is the open bay.
Ice laps inside the plastic cups of wine
Last week’s Stilton cheese still tastes of cream.
We drift the wind-warm channel.
A doe, two fawns, are grazing soft ripe greens onshore. A heron
Rises out of high tide into stark September light.
The sky goes vast goes crimson wild,
The pleasure is so sure no one is laughing.
We navigate the long late afternoon
Of nearly eighty years,
But we can’t see beyond
The end of summer in each other’s eyes.
Awarded 1st Prize by the East End Arts Council, 2007.