Chrissie Gittins
Out Of Place
Your ornaments sit
bunched up on the windowsill,
the conch shell resting on a fluted plate,
the goose tangling with the teapot.
Your photo a
smile from a shingle beach,
faces away. Some other shots of us
have slid right down the mantelpiece
we are in disarray,
too close, no room to look our best.
You hated anything
out of place.
I found your negligée
with a silky camisole - kept one
and bagged the other.
I’ll dress one night as you,
wear your weighty beads and bracelet,
I’ll stretch my lips across my teeth,
half open my mouth,
apply red lipstick in a compact mirror -
the way you did,
then fold a tissue,
imprint my lips in carmine,
and hold it up for you to see.
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- Lamport Court
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- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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