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Month: April 2012

06/04/2012

When my sister is old

By Robin Houghton06/04/2012Categories: Mags & Blogs, PoemsTags: agenda magazine, poemLeave a comment on When my sister is old

I will wait at the door with flowers if she greets me at all it will be brief and cold as the Guildford house where the stairs stayed uncarpeted and the kitchen unmodernised, names and numbers taped on walls, coats and boots crammed under stairs. Her back will be bent like our mother’s, she willRead more ⟶

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