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FIRST DATE
Walking behind you – your chignon, your tanned
forearms, your calves, your white, pleated skirt
swaying, just the suggestion of that
bottom – into a sunlit pub on
Wenlock Edge for gin and orange and a pint;
watching Macbeth through inexorable
drizzle in a Shropshire market town –
‘It will be rain tonight’. ‘Let it come down’;
drying off in another pub, hearing
someone recite Housman loudly:
‘When smoke stood up from Ludlow…;’
driving home, your sleeping head on my shoulder,
your future already in my hands – nearly
two generations ago.
3 responses to “FIRST DATE”
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Beautifully painted, David – memories from days gone by that enrich the tapestry of advancing years.
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If the pub was the Longville Hotel you may have been served by my uncle Ron Clarke!
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My heart says the pub was on the Edge itself. My head says it was somewhere south of Shrewsbury on the A49. Also I wasn’t driving. My blind date and I were back seat passengers in a friend’s car – and not interested in the geography! (And that’s probably another poem). But the rest of the piece is factually accurate – events that took place exactly fifty six years ago this Monday gone.
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