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Having been immersed in memoir writing for many months, I decided to write a small poem every day for a year to keep my poetic hand in. I've posted them to Instagram and facebook as written – where, to my amazement, people love them – but on this blog they are sometimes subject to later rewriting.
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Saturday 18 November 2023

Driving into town, I realise ...

 

Driving into town, I realise: at my book 

launch I’ll see all these friendly faces! I 

say as much to one friend who works in 

the pharmacy, as I pick up my meds. 

When I walk out, there’s a big white 

feather across my path, which wasn’t 

there when I went in. 


‘Hello, Yasoda,’ I say, picking it up. (She 

told us before she passed that this would 

be the signal by which we’d know she was  

around.) ‘You’d have been there with bells 

on, wouldn’t you?’ Then I think – well, 

maybe she still will.


the love of friends –

made visible, tangible

by their presence 













(On my bench at home.)


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