Susanna Narváez

My Mother's Suitors

have come to court me
have come to call oh
yes with their wonderful world
war two moustaches their long
stem roses their cultivated
accents (they're English aren't they
at very least they're educated-Scots) .
They are absolutely au fait with menu-French
they know the language of flowers
& oh they'd die rather than send a dozen yellow
they always get them right & red.
Their handwriting on the florists card
slants neither too much to the left or nght.
They are good sorts.
They have the profile for it –
note the not too much nose ...