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featured poet – Patricia Bishop (   -2015)

Katty Delainey

Already there is dust on the table,
fluff on the floor.
This room she’d scour daily,
corners and ledges glazed.
She’s make a mirror of the paint
huff shine on the glass.

When we were little our feet
grew dextrous on polished stairs.
We’d negotiated with ease the skid traps
of rugs. No evening ended without
her summoning the hoover.

Once I had my own place
I deliberately muddled it
with papers, books, biros.
I’d leave the mugs unwashed
till morning. Swore
I’d never settle to a tidy house.
 
But that day, seeing her yellow
sovereign face on the hospital pillow
I scrubbed the floors and walls, ordered
and dusted each shelf and every cupboard
found myself hovering at midnight.
 

Patricia Bishop

published in Odyssey

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