Sunday, 7 July 2024

Steinway Clothes

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Your clothes, 

Those cotton jersey pull-ons pile

Upon the long closed Steinway,

While I sort them into T shirts, trousers, sweaters, socks,

Leaning over some great box 

Of ‘baby wipes’ and ‘toilet roll’.

Where once was Chopin, King, John Field,

In garments now you are revealed,

Washed and dried, load after load, 

And who you were, is, on the whole

Lost, except within the spaces,

In the grooves,

Of old LPs 

And on the shiny silver faces

Of more recent, old CDs.

Even memory now moves

Within a childhood long before

You started down the happy road

Of fast becoming who you were.



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