Marks and Sparks
spotted cutaway pink zebra print
purple lacy scarlet black silk thin
Pants to get lost in, that’s what she used to wear
and she remembers the time when nuns never wore bras
then the clang of the chapel bells unsettling the stitching
of garments drying on a fine spring morning
in a walled garden
sailor stripes diamanté crotchless
lime green hi-leg push-up Spandex
Now cast adrift in M&S, her grand-niece Alice
tries to steer her to thick-set beige polyester
past the bins of thongs and French pants like jewels adrift
on a vast sea
bows frills nylon scratchy satin
daddy’s little princess WAG in training
Sister Bernadetta’s bottom settles
happily in big white cotton,
she thinks of the stockings
drawn up the back of her legs when she went in
This young girl must think I don’t know anything.
keyhole g-string little pink hearts
skull-and-crossbones Cupid’s darts
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