Pete Crowther Poems

At four o’clock she knocked at the door
I’d never seen a goddess before.
She wore a dress of shimmering light
Around her waist a cord drawn tight.
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Last year my mother died.
I was not there; she died alone.
It was mid-winter when
we buried her. The roads were treacherous
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I’ve never heard your voice nor seen
Your face or felt your touch but yet
I feel I know you better than
I know my sister or my brother.
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I never open envelopes
addressed:
“The occupier” or,
worse still,
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When I was a child
My mother took me
To look for violets.
They grew in a secret place
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Down by the dockside
Round the corner past the pub
The tagareen man
Has a tagareen shop
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Beneath the clouds the rocky cliff
Rose up a thousand feet at least
And seemed to dominate the vale
Like some enormous castle wall
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The poems on the printed page
Began as whispers in the mind
But now attentively they stand
Neat artefacts in black and white
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You see them in all seaside towns
Late summer, say, around the time
The schools go back. They congregate
Like swallows do on lines and wires
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Wee black pup
jumping up
wagging tail
like a flail,
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