B.A.(hons.) Creative Writing graduate (Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales) . All poems, in previous or present forms, are Copyright Jacqui Thewless. All rights reserved.
The author, whose surname before marriage was Hardman, lives in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
Jacqui, soul-stirring and powerful. Thanks for keeping his humanity alive.
Strange Thoughts, Tonight.
Last evening
sharp-snipping scissors cut my hair
and white cream squeezed from a nozzled
tube in a box turned
my locks
black
and tonight I have strange thoughts
about love
like ash
stirred in a bronze dish with
the stub of my pen
when I wore
a patterned silk kimono
smelling of
patchouli oil
and moved inside the slight
ghost of my long-haired youth
after the lover’s cigarette
I slept
on newly-warmed
white wedding-bed-sheets
then you were green too weighty in-
between my tender thighs
tonight
it must be the waxing
moon
the red lip-stick’s
smiling reflection and my
black cut glossy hair
I have strange thoughts that are
soft shadows flickering
behind the grey eyes
gazing from the nakedness I wear.
TROY ANTHONY DAVIS - P.S.S.R.