Snapshot 23-01-2008
When he phones, nine hours behind,
I narrowcast news: I pruned the lime tree.
The sky is windy. The children are happy
but missing you. We saw a movie --
'The Water Horse'. Wonderful.
You ought to see it. How're you doing?
I don't say I rearranged the kitchen, moved his clock radio, found his
hammer drill and put up some shelves -- or that the children tidied his
workshop. Or that I haven't put one piece in the jigsaw we started before he
left.
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Comments: the second stanza was originally in messy, heavily enjambed free
verse, but I didn't like it and went for prose.
For once this poem is literally true, except the lime tree... it was
actually a lemon, two oranges and a mandarin.
Janet
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