DAMIAN GARSIDE

ANGEL

It's hard to imagine

the inside of an Angel


the glass

there is so smooth

one

way to see into

Nothing there to reflect


unless fallen from that high

state of forever, unconscious beauty

into that pain

that comes only with awareness


that these are

shards and

those are fragments


and best we can do is

mosaic

and even then there

are some pieces

cannot be glued.

Cannot be patched.