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An extract from my next poetry collection: ‘Exploring Possibilities’.
Before you returned, I slept in a bed
without creases. Only pulled up the sheets
to straighten. Now I love my wrinkles.
Today following signs to Yield in Ireland,
I’m used to an Aussie Give Way while
I put on red lipstick, tell you stories
of Africa when we were both young
and watch my words seduce you again.
You remember young Chianti; full
round ruby red, peppered with berries.
I remember a Hotel in Kitwe – Blue Nun.
You say your taste has matured, you now
prefer an Aussie Shiraz; sharp, punchy,
still youthful – allowed to ripen with time.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003
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Perth Words... exploring possibilities. 