Anne is the winner of the 2008 Bridport Prize with a
‘nice little sonnet’, Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea...
Poem published in the 2008 Bridport Prize anthology.
Listen to the poem on the Bridport site

in anthology, Ten Hallam Poets, 2005

And the Boat Upon the Water

Why do you come to me in dreams, Katerina?

In dreams of your mother dying?

Why do my sisters bustle so, with kitchen things,

so absently, forgetful of their children?

What has been lost, Katerina,

that brings such people back to me?

I sense a coming dark, my love,

as though a dark friend comes for me.

Sleep may come and dreams may come

and their reasons come no clearer.

Yet why do I hear, in those busy dreams,

the slip of a boat to water?

At home, the salmon claw, Katerina,

claw upstream, through day and night.

Come to me here and now, Katerina,

in the fireflies’ dying light.

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