Madeleines ...

This cabbage was my madeleine -

I remembered the parade of shops in Palmyra Road -

Getting potatoes for my mum -

The green grocer's hairy wrists -

The big notes in the Oxo tin -

There, in the market by the river, I was ten years old again -

I remembered running back across the road -

Shutting the gate -

Saying hello to Mrs Nicholson -

Going round the back of the house -

A voice from the kitchen I'd thought would be there forever -


10.15
Saturday 27 July 2019

The Market
Town Quay
Wareham
Dorset