The Gingerbread Route
Something had to give,
so we packed up your house in Market Drayton:
The home of Gingerbread.
Everything in a Luton van and a hatchback
wallowing down the A41 to my flat.
Your brave face, put on in the rear-view, looking ahead:
romance and profit,
separation and debt,
situations and vacancies
the black and the red
all loaded and moving forever and for good.
Then, that feeling that you’d forgotten something
and you had: a carrier bag of essays (3rd year Media
and Lit/Crit), a curtain pole and all the fittings,
a strimmer and a box with other stuff in it all waiting
in the outhouse along with the other extension lead
and the mop bucket.
I’ll drive up tomorrow; it’s only an 83 mile round trip for me
but for you it’s a return journey.
It’s been a month now and you’ve hung your prints
and racked your CDs and I’ve put up shelves
in the kitchen where a blank wall used to be
and suddenly it’s for you when I get the telephone.
Then today you brought the taste of ginger back to the flat
or rather brought it home.
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