On crowded subway trains
Moments of being
Seen
Smelt
Felt
As substantial
As a passionate shag
Part of life’s
Fuck and run syndrome
Meet
Touch
Rub
Against strangers
Recharging on human warmth
And part
Never to meet again
Lest some accidental synchronicity
Puts us on the same ride
Again.
Dharma bum
Packs her
Bag
On the road
To
Wherever
Looking for
Whatever
Life will
Throw her way
Whenever
She will
Find it
She will
Take it
For what it is
When it is
Where it is
Questions
Which are
obsolete
Find
Their own
Answers.
Ulrike says, "I have been writing poetry now for many years - always in English. Poetry about encounters with people from all places, in all places on this planet and about the feelings triggered by those encounters. I am writing as a woman...I am a woman, and my poems express my view of the world...the view of a European woman. My first collection of poetry, Every Woman's Blues, came out this year with Lapwing Press, Belfast."