My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards

Author:Jonathan Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seren

Welsh National Costume

Fancy dress? Always a laugh. My Tom Jones

sideburns-and-flares number in the bag,

we’re drawn past Britney, Cinderella,

to a rail at the back. The pleats, the hat,

the lace. Your face. And later, the text you send:

Helpless. Help. I rush round to find

you’re a ball of tartan on your carpet,

a post-match, post-pub Scotsman, so

I dress you. The rule of thumb

is wherever I see a bit of body,

cover it with rough checked rug:

where there are bedclothes, tablecloths,

put them on, until you’re mummified

by plaid. Hold it together with safety pins

and what my mother said. This is murder

on my skin, you moan, but I stick to it:

the peepshow frills, the death-bell bonnet,

tied with ribbon that makes your chin

a present. Now you’re all dressed:

your body’s imaginary, legs an idea,

and under all that cotton, what’s the self?

The only way to get you back’s to hug you

and it’s then I feel it, down past all those layers

of cloth and history, the light, the dark:

the steady thrum, my love, of your English heart.

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