By Philip Porter,
She falls into her father’s arms from various heights:
This was the light that held her darknesses from her. “The Fall”, Jordie Albiston
hands up in a big hurrah
a one child Mexican wave
dandling from her father’s
arms like a trapeze artist
before she turns a trick
a somersault of sheer delight
daddy’s here I can be
as dangerous as I like.
This poem was previously published in Meniscus Vol 2 Issue 1 2014.