Simon Cohen
Anniversary
After forty years together
there is a library of things we did
and said, your clear mind remembered dates,
the years and months, or the look
of the guesthouse at Freshwater Bay,
knows the words that Peter first spoke.
My head is more like a basket of old
wool balls unwinding, cottoned threads
traceable but running round back
and forward, even looking for your
glasses amongst the bed clothes.
Moving a delicate plant across the garden
to where, breaking the rules, it thrives.
Dry puddles of talcum powder on the floor.
Sharing your duffle coat with the silk lining
under a tree on Box Hill.
there is a library of things we did
and said, your clear mind remembered dates,
the years and months, or the look
of the guesthouse at Freshwater Bay,
knows the words that Peter first spoke.
My head is more like a basket of old
wool balls unwinding, cottoned threads
traceable but running round back
and forward, even looking for your
glasses amongst the bed clothes.
Moving a delicate plant across the garden
to where, breaking the rules, it thrives.
Dry puddles of talcum powder on the floor.
Sharing your duffle coat with the silk lining
under a tree on Box Hill.
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