According to Billy Collins, Poet Laureate, poets are all pillagers and magpies so here's a little poem inspired by reading Vona Groarke's Against Loss
I'm always startled by the shift in time a scent can cause......a split second of memory breaking through.
With the scent of coconut shower gel
the cheap brand
probably from Woolworths
comes you in your young day
one snapshot only.
Kate Bush curls and hippy flounces
cheesecloth dirndl scattering
sandalwood in its wake
your head full of Heathcliff.
Are you still there young girl?
Are you still there?
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I just made the connection - Heathcliff and Cathy!!
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