Elizabeth Francine Tan
 

at night

 

at night,

swimming in a sea of streetlight;

like moons rising ahead

where the road's belly curves out of sight.

 

(beached now,

waiting for the last buses home;

watching cars drift us by -

ripples of watery glee )

 

the darkness closes our eyelids;

you slip up a bus and the

shells sing to me

 

 

Elizabeth was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2007.

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