Delirium

through back streets
and alleyways,
on a dérive, cartographically

drawn to gum-blasted pavements,
where our heels
synced with each other,

things are now
shivering, leaves
with a lustre,

dreams trespassing
their edges,
shadowing skyscrapers,

cafes we fled —
this weight of serendipities, intense
anti-epiphanies

in the city’s cleft
of grief
where all traces decimate,

and I am
a mystic,
emotions dislocated of names —

thank fuck,
the sunset is speaking,
on this occasion, you’re sane.

Patrick Wright