TALL - KEY QUOTES

then, like a

christening gift

day one saw her rising at 8 foot,

bigger than any man

as if she were

praying for rain

somebody whooped

she stopped

he turned and fled

like a boy

A tree dangled an apple

at bite-height

a traffic light stuttered

on red, went out

personal birds

sang on her ears

in passing,

saw lovers in the rented rooms

she bowed herself

into a bar

she needed

a turret

But pilgims came - small women with questions and worries

men on stilts

so day six, she upped sticks

horizon bound

she cured

no one

Taller was colder,

aloner, wiser

WHat kind of weather was heading

their way?

cuaght their souls in her hands

as they fell from the burnin towers