Poppies

• "Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer"
• "Sellotape bandaged around my hand, I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could"
• "steeled the softening glaze. I wanted to graze my my nose across the tip of your nose"
• "All my words flattened, rolled turned into felt, slowly melting I was brave"
• "I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair"
• "A split second and you were away, intoxicated."
• "Released a songbird from its cage (...) I listened, hoping tohear your playground voice catching on the wind"
• "my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without a winter coat or reinforcements"