Before you were mine

• "I'm ten years away from the corner you laugh on"
• "before you were mine"
• "the decade ahead of my loud possessive yell was the best one, eh?"
• "I remember by hand in those high heeled red shoes"
• "when you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine"
• published in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy
• tribute to her mother - eulogy