Terry Collett Poems

It was the fourth day
since the break up
from school
for the summer vacation
...

Your Aunt Edna
had asthma
and she carried around
a big black
...

You never expected
your mother to die
although the hospital
hinted at such
...

They each shared
the same mother
shared the same loss of her
...

You stood
in the playground
of St Jude's school
which was really
...

And there was Mame
Posed between two Arabs
Leaning against a camel
On a Moroccan beach
...

Your mother died
a peaceful death
no heart attack

no fight
...

Grief tests ones faith,
Mrs Mullins said.

Her son was dead;
killed in the war.
...

Fay met you
at the bus stop
on the New Kent Road
she was dressed
...

You don't want to go
With that kind of woman,
Henry's mother said.
What kind of woman
...