CHRISTMAS KISSES AT ST PANCRAS
They lean like emperor penguins
over their summer-sky-hoodied son
and the whole windwhirled concourse looks,
because the zeal of every au revoir kiss
demands double-takes from all of us
travellers, whose thoughts progress
to the boy’s exclusion, and memories
of wondering whether and when
that love-thing between your parents
might happen so overwhelmingly to you.
