" title="Brittle Star Alice Beer
This Morning
we were there, in our walled back garden,
and you, my love, picked a few coxes off the tree
which puzzled me because we never had an apple tree
and even as I thought this you were gone, so I
went through the back door into the kitchen
with its red quarry-tiled floor and
the blue and white check curtains, the sink
under the window, the saucepans upside down
on the shelf opposite, the mug tree
with its blue and white mugs on the cupboard
near the draining board as usual so I wondered
what the young man, reminding me of you
was doing in my kitchen with his arms
round a laughing young woman, when I woke up
and remembered it was more than 18 years
since I moved to my own little flat
overlooking the square.
and you, my love, picked a few coxes off the tree
which puzzled me because we never had an apple tree
and even as I thought this you were gone, so I
went through the back door into the kitchen
with its red quarry-tiled floor and
the blue and white check curtains, the sink
under the window, the saucepans upside down
on the shelf opposite, the mug tree
with its blue and white mugs on the cupboard
near the draining board as usual so I wondered
what the young man, reminding me of you
was doing in my kitchen with his arms
round a laughing young woman, when I woke up
and remembered it was more than 18 years
since I moved to my own little flat
overlooking the square.
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