I have booked the hotel
I am taking a two-day break
To prepare this work
For the Arvon poetry-collection course
I did have a doubt
I wondered if my Working Type
Could become a poem novel or a novel poem
I do care for how it reads
Yet without the Arvon motivation
How would 2004 survive
We didn’t survive
So why should a slim volume of poems
To talk of joy
As in that last piece
Seems pretty wide of the mark
Yet, here in the present
With a different room
For me to look forwards to
That always inviting space
Which is YSP
