Poem 551

Jotted on a scrap of paper and given away, this one took a long time to bounce back to me, last of the flock to be gathered in …

… the title is a reference to the film Il Postino in which Pablo Neruda teaches his local postman what a metaphor is …

Il Metafore

I have my arm up to the elbow
plunged inside your chest
and I'm groping round
for your heart

don't panic
I don't want to tear it out
I just want to hold it