Poem
Shamshad Khan
LOVE - OVER EATING AND OVER HEARING
LOVE - OVER EATING AND OVER HEARING
LOVE - OVER EATING AND OVER HEARING
you listen to music in the same way you eat foodwith reverent ecstasy
tasting each cadence in sound
separating layers of rhythm
savouring slithers of melting melody whilst
hearing salt grind
in the unexpected sweet refrain
held at the back of your throat
the deepest base
touches the tip of your tongue
so sourness sings
its sharp twist
to curdle drums
you peel a piano concentrating on keeping the spiral
flavour spins the radio dial
blur of colliding in your headphones
in the wet street a woman and a man argue about
who should have rung who
on rainy days I’m told
everything tastes like music.
© 2006, Shamshad Khan
Shamshad Khan
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1964)
Shamshad Khan was conceived in Karachi and born in Britain. Her published works include a short story, ‘The Woman and the Chair’, published by Virago in 1994, and her poetry appears in a number of anthologies including Flame, Poetry of Rebellion, The Firepeople, Bittersweet, Healing Strategies for Women at War, Gargoyle, Longman’s GCSE Poems for your Pocket, Velocity and Redbeck Press’ antholog...
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LOVE - OVER EATING AND OVER HEARING
you listen to music in the same way you eat foodwith reverent ecstasy
tasting each cadence in sound
separating layers of rhythm
savouring slithers of melting melody whilst
hearing salt grind
in the unexpected sweet refrain
held at the back of your throat
the deepest base
touches the tip of your tongue
so sourness sings
its sharp twist
to curdle drums
you peel a piano concentrating on keeping the spiral
flavour spins the radio dial
blur of colliding in your headphones
in the wet street a woman and a man argue about
who should have rung who
on rainy days I’m told
everything tastes like music.
LOVE - OVER EATING AND OVER HEARING
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