Terry Collett Poems

I was with Helen
on the bomb site
on Harper Road.
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Benny took
his bow and arrows
onto the grass behind
Arrol House.
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Benny stoned
a tin can.

He watched it fall
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You probably wore
the red Christmas jumper
just a few times
that last Christmas,
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Shush shush
the steam train
started up.
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Fay's father was off
the weekend
on a religious retreat
at some monastery
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Whaur ur ye gonnae?
Mrs Scot said.

Going out
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Summer afternoon,
butterflies fluttering past,
lying in the tall grass,
Benny and Jane,
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Benny had just left
and your mother
was walking about
the passage
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Benedict saw Yiska
coming towards him
as he stepped
from the school bus.
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