How
1. your tacky taste in jewellery sparkled in a way that highlighted you
as everything but
2. you held my hand through joy and picked me
up from
3. scraped knees made my eyes feel full and wet with pain
caused by
4. you had the same glass coffee table for all those years
I was with
5. you always kept it
clean and
6. everything else was dirty
like the cups of
7. instant coffee is supposed to be bad
bitter I still feel it in my
mouth now and I think I like the
8. taste of the scent
you left when
9. you were stronger than all the men I’d ever met and
even more
10. stubborn weeds grew on the pavement pieces
even when you were
11. home was where you were
when you followed
me and told me that
12. you grew weeds when
you left too.
