Terry Collett Poems

A smile
and that was it
she had you captured
and that was
...

I was on the bus
back from Richmond
where I stayed
a day and night
...

Una folds
the letter
and puts it
...

Magdalene sits opposite
her father at the dining table,
her mother is in the kitchen
dishing up the food.
...

Nuala opens
the front door
sees Brian sitting
in his armchair
...

Go where?
Lydia's mother said

Southend
...

Miss O’Toole moves in her
Broad bed. She scratches
Her behind to relieve an itch.
Tries to harness her dreams
...

It's wintry
the woods are damp
the undergrowth is dull
and few birds sing
...

After that death
there was that other,
that part of self,
...

Yiska sighed.
Benny’s bus
had just gone;
she’d missed
...