Haha she must have had -an elderly poet peeping
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 27 May 2015 16:34
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Subject: written on my iPhone
In the bookshop armchair next to me
a handsome tall woman
with long black hair has just sat down
with two big books on names for babies.
Yes she is visibly pregnant
and I would say in the pink
of health if she wasn't
of Asian appearance.
She seems to be contemplating
Charlotte - no, Mary - now boys' names
equally. It pleases me that she
may not know which to expect.
Inspired Baby Names is the bigger book -
'6000 from around the world'.
Author: Neala Shane.
'If you like Adam, you might like.'
goes one entry. Her iPhone
distracts her a moment.
Now she's at Adeline.
Why not search the web?
Such a book will have been
compiled off the web
by mechanical means. Clemence?
Her phone is bigger than mine.
Is she aware of my spying?
The shop fans revolve. Evening sun
streams through the skylights.
There's no one at the Information desk -
oh yes, he's back. What was the cafe
is swathed in black plastic
for renovations to be unveiled next month.
Now she reads a section headed Color...
turns to: Eternal, Garden, Gift, God Allah Male -
each category must list possible names!
Goddess Female Ambrosia I see.
Her finger is on Grace Female,
now: Handsome Healthy.
Her brown boots reach almost to her knee.
Enough - she's up and away.=
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