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Terry Collett
Poems
Apr 2015
FOLLOWING FAY 1959.
And we're in line
for school dinner
and the trestles
have been set up
for the purpose
and Fay
is in front of me
in the line up
and I smell
a scent flower like
fresh and rewarding
after sitting
next to Dennis
most of the morning
in class
her hair is fair
and almost blonde
and down
to her shoulders
there are two
yellow ribbons
holding the hair
in bunches
I study
I sniff gently
not loudly
not taking
a pig's sniff
but just
an intake of breath
of a sniff
and she moves
along the line
and I move
after her
and her hands
are white
and the fingers delicate
and the nails
filed and neat
and she's shy
and turns and says
can we talk
after dinner?
sure we can
I say
taking in her
blue eyes
and the lips
and God I think
how is it
that my
11 year old
brain and eyes
are feasting on
her 11year old being
as such
I don't know
no more than I know
why flowers die
then bulbs come
or why my
great grandmother
dies and that's it
and she turns back
to the dinner lady
and the woman says
two ***** of potato
or one?
peas? carrots?
she nods her head
and says
one ball please
and then moves on
with her plate
and I face
the woman and say
all that I can have
and she looks at me
with her dark eyes
and sighs.
A BOY AND GIRL IN LONDON IN 1959.
Written by
Terry Collett
Sussex, England
(Sussex, England)
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