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I slept in a room in the roof,
the white planes of its ceiling
freckled with light from the sea,
or at night leaf shadows
from the street-lamp in the lane.
Below, the flame of her hair,
and the gleam of a colander
as she bent among the pea-rows,
or pulled lettuce from the black earth,
wearing silly shoes to make her taller.
Even in summer, sometimes, salt on the air,
I’d hear far off that faltered heartbeat
of the Breaksea lightship,
then the held breath of silence
to the count of ten.
Now the vegetable garden is a lawn,
and they sold the coach house, pigsty,
the old stable where in wet summers
we crouched over our cache of secrets
under the cidery air of an apple-loft.
From a hundred miles and thirty
years away
I smell long rows of fruit,
turned to rotten gourds of juice
soft skinned as toads.
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Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke

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