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Terry Collett

To Meet Again

Your mother died
a peaceful death
no heart attack

no fight
for breath
no death rattle

into the night
just a sudden
departure

like a switched out light
all her long life
concluding in this

a gentle going
death's soft kiss
a daughter

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Flypapers at Auntie's House.

Flypapers hung in the kitchen
Of Auntie’s house. Death traps
For flies that buzzed at their ends
Or buzzed noisily from surface
To surface unaware the brown
Sticky strips were there to trap.
You stared at the long brown strips
Covered in flies, some buzzed fruitlessly,
Others were quiet and still, having
Given up the will to buzz or make noise
Just hanging there black corpses on
Brown paper, a graveyard swaying in
The draught from the wide open door
To buzz and fly and irritate no more.

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His Tongue.

His tongue entered
your ear

licked the rim
and lobe

and made its way
down your neck

becoming dry
as it reached

never mind that now
he never told you

he had a wife
back in L.A.

and that she
was dying

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Before Choir

She pulled you
into the porch

of the church
and kissed your

lips while others
made their way

inside for choir
practice and no

one seemed to
miss you for the

time it took for
a kiss or two and

as you made your
way back around

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After Gym

After gym
before the tediousness

of double maths
she went with you

and sat on the bench
on the playing field

watching the sky
turn from blue

to grey
rain

she said
is on the way

but still you sat
and talked

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In The Moonlight

In the moonlight
you saw how she
would look down
the corridor of years

waking in the middle
of the night calling
your name because
you had left the bed

to go for a pee or a
glass of milk to drink.
The moonlight would
not be the same moonlight

then and probably you
thought you wouldn’t be
there anyway someone
else would occupy the bed

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Mother Silent

Those days are over now
you and your mother

sitting in the garden
she with her posh lady hat

and you in your cap
to keep the sun

from your balding head
she maybe muttering

but mostly still
and quiet and looking

as best she could
at the birds coming and going

as they picked up bread
now she is still

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Every Day

Every day she sat
opposite you on

the bus looking
beyond you not

at you or turning
her head to some

other view than you
and she would mouth

words silently as if
in some secret prayer

and maybe her god
was invisibly sitting

there and whoever
sat next to her and

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Drink It Down

Drink it down,
Mother said,

it's good
for the bowels;

it'll stop you
feeling bunged up

and unable to shit.
The spoonful

tasted foul,
it clung

to your tongue
like black glue,

brought
your stomach

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I Guess

I guess that's it, huh?
no more wearing
the wife's new clothes,
Don said sadly,

no more trying on
those dresses she gets
from that shop
on the high street,

no more pulling on
those panties and tights
when she's out
with her friends at nights.

I guess that's it,
no more dressing up
in her bikini
and doing the catwalk

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