Pretend You Dont Know Me New and Selected Poems by Finuala Dowling

Author:Finuala Dowling
Format: epub

Your back was warm;

your pillow fragrant.

These nights I lie awake calculating our ages:

I am forty-five to your eighty-five,

will be fifty to your ninety,

sixty to your century.

I stand in a lit-up doorway

– disinfectant upon human soil.

You wince slightly as you shift aside,

pat the space beside you: ‘Lie here.’

I wait only until you breathe evenly.

Be shared

Why can’t you be more like

the new kitten

who creeps to Granny’s bed

in the lonely afternoon

and sleeps there companionably

like an idling motor

that whirs into action

when Beaty with bells and strings

takes the stairs in twos

for fur and games;

nobody feeling faithless or betrayed?

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