***
neapolitan
ice cream
wafer
a memory
of yellow cornfields
***
***
home-made
Victoria
butter-cream raspberry sponge
a memory
of grandma's high teas
***
a ninety-niner ice cream
I bought in the park
for tuppence
a memory
of how I used my bus fare home from school
***
***
orange juice
and
biscuits
a memory
of an elderly couple with a dog
***
my place on the bench
opposite a girl
with a perpetually snotty nose
a memory
of school lunches
***
***
a wicker basket
of home-made cakes
covered with tea towel
a memory
of a walk upstream
***
home-made liquidised soup
splattered
on walls and ceiling
a memory
of a meal in a commune
***
***
lashings of custard
on
my pudding
a memory
of kind dinner ladies
***
mouldy white bread
and soup powder
in tap water
a memory
of a kind girl called Robin
***
***
eating peas
straight
from the pod
a memory
of Granddad's vegetable garden
***
fried eggs
nearly all
double yolks
a memory
of collecting eggs on the farm
***
***
sloes
eaten
from the hedgerow
a memory
of a cold frosty morning
***
***
my
mother's
stew
I remember
hating sliced carrots
***
three tier
cake stand
full of cakes
I remember
Lyons Corner Houses
***
***
on the moors
cold water
and tea bags
I remember
all the gas escaping from the calor gas cylinder
***
beef paste sandwiches
generously laced
with sand
I remember
Brighton beach
***
walking a long way
with the picnic basket
then the sun went in
I remember
my mother's bad temper
***
***
a blood stained parcel
wrapped
in brown paper and string
I remember
grandma posting us a chicken at Xmas
***
a crusty bun
pat of butter
and oxo crisps
I remember
lunch for a shilling
***
a salad
all the ingredients arranged
picturesquely on the plate
I remember
the first meal John made me
***
gas stove
exploded
when I couldn't light it
I remember
first cup of tea I tried to make for my parents
***
white ice cream
with
hot chocolate custard
I remember
my favourite Sunday lunch pudding
***
eating a roast chicken
pulling it apart
with my fingers
I remember
a fancy dress medieval banquet
***
chocolate sponge
with
green mint custard
I remember
my favourite school pudding
***
rice pudding
with
figs
I remember
my least favourite school pudding
***
***
in the hedgerows
sun warmed
raspberries
I remember
a walk with a friend
***
apples
red
and green
I remember
granddad's old gnarled apple orchard
***
***
at the picnic
orange juice
poured into tumblers
I remember
the wasps joining in
***
a box
of Cadburys Milk Tray
all for me
I remember
my reward for finding a lost purse
***
***
a full
two pint
orangeade bottle
I remember
a urine sample a classmate took to a medical exam
***
a huge enormous
dead black spider
in my lettuce
I remember
screaming one school lunchtime
***
***
fish and chips
on
Bournemouth seashore
I remember
watching the sun go down
***
one third pint
bottles
of milk
I remember
drinking through a paper straw at school morning break
***
***
a few biscuits
from each tin
in a white paper bag
I remember
the grocer's shop with bare wooden floors
***
sweets
for
a farthing each
I remember
my farthing with the jenny wren on it
***
***
a silver sixpence
into
a bubble gum machine
I remember
the Beatles cards that came with it
***
***
fish and chips
in
a transport café
I remember
a video machine with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Band
***
***
blackberries
soaking in salt water
the maggots floating to the surface
I remember
my mother-in-laws blackberry pie
***
***
chicken feathers
flying
in the breeze
I remember
grandma plucking the chicken for lunch
***
neapolitan
ice cream
wafer
a memory
of yellow cornfields
***
***
home-made
Victoria
butter-cream raspberry sponge
a memory
of grandma's high teas
***
a ninety-niner ice cream
I bought in the park
for tuppence
a memory
of how I used my bus fare home from school
***
***
orange juice
and
biscuits
a memory
of an elderly couple with a dog
***
my place on the bench
opposite a girl
with a perpetually snotty nose
a memory
of school lunches
***
***
a wicker basket
of home-made cakes
covered with tea towel
a memory
of a walk upstream
***
home-made liquidised soup
splattered
on walls and ceiling
a memory
of a meal in a commune
***
***
lashings of custard
on
my pudding
a memory
of kind dinner ladies
***
mouldy white bread
and soup powder
in tap water
a memory
of a kind girl called Robin
***
***
eating peas
straight
from the pod
a memory
of Granddad's vegetable garden
***
fried eggs
nearly all
double yolks
a memory
of collecting eggs on the farm
***
***
sloes
eaten
from the hedgerow
a memory
of a cold frosty morning
***
***
my
mother's
stew
I remember
hating sliced carrots
***
three tier
cake stand
full of cakes
I remember
Lyons Corner Houses
***
***
on the moors
cold water
and tea bags
I remember
all the gas escaping from the calor gas cylinder
***
beef paste sandwiches
generously laced
with sand
I remember
Brighton beach
***
walking a long way
with the picnic basket
then the sun went in
I remember
my mother's bad temper
***
***
a blood stained parcel
wrapped
in brown paper and string
I remember
grandma posting us a chicken at Xmas
***
a crusty bun
pat of butter
and oxo crisps
I remember
lunch for a shilling
***
a salad
all the ingredients arranged
picturesquely on the plate
I remember
the first meal John made me
***
gas stove
exploded
when I couldn't light it
I remember
first cup of tea I tried to make for my parents
***
white ice cream
with
hot chocolate custard
I remember
my favourite Sunday lunch pudding
***
eating a roast chicken
pulling it apart
with my fingers
I remember
a fancy dress medieval banquet
***
chocolate sponge
with
green mint custard
I remember
my favourite school pudding
***
rice pudding
with
figs
I remember
my least favourite school pudding
***
***
in the hedgerows
sun warmed
raspberries
I remember
a walk with a friend
***
apples
red
and green
I remember
granddad's old gnarled apple orchard
***
***
at the picnic
orange juice
poured into tumblers
I remember
the wasps joining in
***
a box
of Cadburys Milk Tray
all for me
I remember
my reward for finding a lost purse
***
***
a full
two pint
orangeade bottle
I remember
a urine sample a classmate took to a medical exam
***
a huge enormous
dead black spider
in my lettuce
I remember
screaming one school lunchtime
***
***
fish and chips
on
Bournemouth seashore
I remember
watching the sun go down
***
one third pint
bottles
of milk
I remember
drinking through a paper straw at school morning break
***
***
a few biscuits
from each tin
in a white paper bag
I remember
the grocer's shop with bare wooden floors
***
sweets
for
a farthing each
I remember
my farthing with the jenny wren on it
***
***
a silver sixpence
into
a bubble gum machine
I remember
the Beatles cards that came with it
***
***
fish and chips
in
a transport café
I remember
a video machine with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Band
***
***
blackberries
soaking in salt water
the maggots floating to the surface
I remember
my mother-in-laws blackberry pie
***
***
chicken feathers
flying
in the breeze
I remember
grandma plucking the chicken for lunch
***
