We say a lot about
what we should have said.
Paper flies between us;
I choose you flowers, and
you tell me you're a man.
My reply is sensibility,
sometimes feeling like an
avocado pear –
stoned. Two takes
of my hand; the press
on your mouth; the well
of your fist; our mutual
moving away.
Tamara Fulcher won the Geoffrey Dearmer prize 2006. Read her winning poem here.