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Terry Collett
Poems
Feb 2013
FAY AND THE PATER NOSTER.
After breakfast
after doing shopping
for your mother
you met Fay on the grass
in front of Banks House
and you lay there
looking up at the summer sun
and white clouds
and the sound of trains
shunting
over by the railway yard
and Fay said
my daddy says
I’m to be able to recite
the Pater Noster in Latin
by the time
he gets back
from his work travelling
what the heck’s
the Pater Noster?
You asked
looking at her sideway
her pale features
catching your eyes
her blue eyes
gazing at the sun
it’s the Our Father in English
she said
what’s the big deal?
You said
doesn’t God
understand English?
sure He does
she said
but Daddy wants me
to learn the Latin
he said all good
Catholic girls
need to know
their Latin
what’s kiss my ****
in Latin?
You asked
she looked at you
and laughed shyly
and said
I don’t know
ask your dad
You said
I wouldn’t dare
she said
looking away
back at the sky
does he know Latin
your dad?
You asked
some he does
she replied
but he wouldn’t know that
I shouldn’t think
maybe
you should learn that
and say that you him
instead of the Pater Noster
she looked anxious
I wouldn’t dream of it
she said
and as you both lay there
on the grass
she moved her leg
and you saw
a blue bruise
on her thigh
turning greeny yellow
but you said nothing
of that but talked
how your old man
had made you
a blue metal money box
to keep your pocket money in
and she listened in silence
her pale features
and blue eyes
holding your eyes
as you spoke
looking along
her lime coloured dress
at the leg showing
the bruise still there
like a fallen fruit
and she smelt of apples
freshly picked
and held to the nose
better go
she said
best learn this Latin
before his return
and off she walked
across the grass
waving to you
as she went
and you blew her a kiss
from your palm
but she had gone
but at least
You said
gazing at the sky
it’d been sent.
Written by
Terry Collett
Sussex, England
(Sussex, England)
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