Drawing by Judith Wolfe
KAY COOKE

Two Poems


      The Triangle Shop Idea Might Even Work

      (for my daughter Ro)

      You want to own a triangle shop.
      "Don't come here
      with your parallelograms."

      Fluffy orange ones
      for the kids. Triangle
      furniture, earrings ... tents.

      Ruby in the Dust
      has good coffee at 3.00 p.m.
      We order orange juice to follow.

      Soon you will be in Australia
      and I bereft of a mirror
      image, Your brown eyes to my blue.

      You are the baby I dream about.
      The one I keep thinking
      I have lost somewhere;

      left with someone to look after,
      then when I want you back,
      I can't remember who it was I left you with ...


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