04-22-2015, 11:59 AM
I told them I hurt myself skating
Tannoy speakers
broadcast ‘Rambling Rose’
over a constant rumble
of rubber wheels on concrete
and the ssssh …ssssh …
of waves turning shingle
along the beach below
where we moved awkwardly
together in the shadows
leaving me stone-bruised.
I didn’t want to talk
afterwards, hid away
in the Ladies.
Do I look different?
Am I a woman now?
My parents picked me up
as arranged, full of news;
Kennedy’s death in Dallas.
Later I learned we lost
C S Lewis and
Aldous Huxley too
that same night.
Tannoy speakers
broadcast ‘Rambling Rose’
over a constant rumble
of rubber wheels on concrete
and the ssssh …ssssh …
of waves turning shingle
along the beach below
where we moved awkwardly
together in the shadows
leaving me stone-bruised.
I didn’t want to talk
afterwards, hid away
in the Ladies.
Do I look different?
Am I a woman now?
My parents picked me up
as arranged, full of news;
Kennedy’s death in Dallas.
Later I learned we lost
C S Lewis and
Aldous Huxley too
that same night.