Anne-Marie Fyfe
6, Sloop Lane
In a night air thick with low tide
and shadows of long-ago children
I trace that holiday-let among blind
alleys stepped up from the harbour.
I want you to know that the house
is smaller than I remember
an ill-fitted screen door and withered
Chronicles, a flat tube of glue
among flies on a teak windowshelf.
Promenade hotels echo to too few residents.
But you’d still know the out-of-hours dentist’s
close by on the hill where I fretted with an abscess,
the gent’s outfitters where we found
the stormcoat that never quite fitted.
I want to tell you every last
tang-laden, mast-clinking bit of it
but even if I could mail you
or waken the dead call-collect
you’d want to know what
in this world I was talking about.
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