Driving to the hospital
I don’t play music
though Leonard Cohen’s last CD
is in the pocket of the car door
READ SOME MORE
with it all getting darker
and the treaty needed
between your love and mine.
I don’t play music
though Ludovico Einaudi is waiting,
hands poised above the piano,
the way my father’s used to be
before he played the Nocturnes –
Chopin, John Field.
I don’t play
but the frosted trees strike
the rim of the sky like a bell
or a note on the edge
of a Tibetan singing bowl
and another part of me
is kneeling down to pray.
Lani O’Hanlon is a dancer, movement therapist and widely published poet. She has an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University
