Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock

Author:Fleur Adcock [Fleur Adcock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370057
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

I had my eleventh birthday there:

books, and cake for tea in the back parlour

we rented from Mrs Gain.

We all used the big kitchen

with the range whose lid she lifted one day

when Stanley Gain (about my age,

but a boy, unfortunately)

came in dangling from a long stick something

murkily white with loops at each end:

‘What’s this, Mum?’ ‘I don’t know; give it here’ –

into the sizzling coals. He smirked and left.

She clanked the lid, and honoured me

with a complicit glance, as if

I were old enough to use things like that

or know what name she’d call them by.

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