Afternoon Sunshine 1965 Poem by Terry Collett

Afternoon
sunshine shines
through the glass
of my room
(small bedroom)

Tilly's there
beside me
on my bed

all's quiet
we're breathing
quite heavy
after sex

both naked
lying there

her half day
off from work
me between
my work shifts

when's you mum
get back home?
Tilly asks

bout an hour
on the bus
I reply
your old girl
will wonder
where you've gone
I tell her

Tilly sighs
I'll say
it was stock-
taking day
she mutters

you said that
the last time
you were late
home from work
I tell her

Tilly looks
at the sky
shall I say
about the sex
between us?
She threatens

what'd she say
if you did?
I reply

belt me one
I dare say
Tilly says

want a smoke?
I ask her

no not here
best get dressed
she got up
from the bed
and got dressed

so did I
watching her
nakedness
disappear
into clothes
underwear
dark stockings
a white blouse
a blue skirt
then black shoes

make the bed
then downstairs
out the door
at the back
down the path
to the back
wooden gate

then she goes
with a kiss
into woods
to her home
in the lane

till next time
sex again.