Poetry

Separate Sightings

Sebastian Schloessingk

 

One gleaming white camper-van I spotted

was towing on a fixed-bar a Smart car:

swish yacht and dinghy.

Another gleaming white camper-van

I spotted, wilderness-headed,

had a wheelchair strapped on behind,

cleaving to it in a black sheath but partly

showing through, spokes tragic and gleaming