this is very powerful in impression, as a sort of out of body experience
that takes the reader to this warm, small, echoing, sunlit time & place.
very approachable & tangible imagery, some beautiful metaphors. the last
line KILLS it.
KS
On 10/01/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Off Marrickville Road
>
> We lived, you know.
> We lived in a big house, owned by Greek greengrocers. We laughed at
> that.
> They gave us fruit, and vegetables, and dyed eggs at Easter.
> There was a rusted rocketship outside our bedroom window,
> a swimming pool in the park. One summer council built a roof over it,
> charged double entry.
> We climbed the fence naked at night, and weren't alone.
>
> In summer, we slept on the grass.
> I went to the shop in my dressing gown, unconcerned.
> You laced your shoes with black ribbons and made me undo them.
> A housemate brought home a sack of potatoes because they were cheap.
> The smell of them rotting.
> I learned to make coffee, eat chillies, score.
> A pane of glass fell from a window and didn't break.
>
> At 21, 22, 23 I loved you more completely.
> The lino on our floor was torn. We made a special room of sheets.
> Our lovers were leaves disappearing through the floorboards.
> Some had soundtracks, one was an opera singer.
> You seduced her on the couch, called her Dame Odalisque,
> while I watched from the floor like a child.
> We were children. We had smack. We lived.
>
>
>
>
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