The Tuesday Poem - a couple of days late !

For our second-to-last poem this year Helen McKinlay has posted a really lovely poem by Vincent O'Sullivan, the current poet laureate, plus an interview with him: http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/being-here-by-vincent-osullivan-new.html

There are several really perfect lines and phrases in the poem, but this I think is my favourite: ' I hold one back and bite into it and its/taste is the taste of the colour exactly'.