A Girl’s Head
(after the poem, ‘A Boy’s Head’ by Miroslav Holub)
In it there is a dream
that was started
before she was born,
and there is a globe
with hemispheres
which shall be happy.
There is her own spacecraft,
a chosen dress
and pictures of her friends.
There are shining rings
and a maze of mirrors.
There is a diary
for surprise occasions.
There is a horse springing hooves
across the sky.
There is a sea
that tides and swells
and cannot be mapped.
There is untold hope
in that no equation exactly
fits a head.
Katherine Gallagher
(from Poetry Street 3 (Sale & Orme, 1991),
I haven’t read ‘A Boy’s Head’ but this poem is wonderful. Moving, expansive and beautifully written. Thank you.
This is amazing!!! Sending it to my daughtr & son in law in Hong Kong!!! Carpe Diem Robyn