Jackie kay Flashcards
A door opens and closes. time is outside waiting.
Keeping orchids
There are parents in the world whose faces turn up to see the light who speak in soft murmurs of rivers and never shout
Dicorce
Massive leatherbacks
Gap Year
You are rough and wild
Divorce
Soaking my chest of drawers
Keeping orchids
You arrived late
Gap year
Am a burden tae her
Bed
I would be better off in an orphanage’
Divorce
Compressed. airtight
Keeping Orchids
He canny see anything
Gap Year
Trying to imagine you in your bed
Gap year
Put in the basket
Gap year
Troubled hands
Keeping orchids
My heart sores like the birds in your bright blue skies. my love glows like the sunrise over the lost city
Gap Year
I close my eyes and try to remember exactly
Keeping orchids
Great tent o’ nappy
Bed
These parents are not you i never chose you
Divorce
The kerrs have disappeared
Bed
You were dreaming
Gap Year
A’ took a pride in ma guid smooth skin.)
Bed
Buds became closed
Keeping orchids
Pu’ ma cardie tight
Bed
Grapes have no immagination
Lucozade
Her train station to mine then home
Keeping orchids
Time is whit A’ hauld between the soft bits o’ ma thumbs,
Bed
You were lying cross-legged with an index finger resting sophisticatedly on one cheek
Gap year
Want her guilty
Bed
High bed
Lucozade
Don’t bring magazines, too much about size.
Lucozade
Father, your breath smells like a camel’s and gives me the hump
Divorce
I have a son out in the big wide world
Gap year
I carry the orange nostalgia home singing an old song
Lucozade
That’s no seen a lick o’ paint fir donkeys
Bed
Bags full, Lucozade, Grapes, oranges, sad chrysanthemums under my arms
Lucozade
I dont want to be your child
Divorce
She nods off and her eyes go back in her head
Lucozade
I want a divorce
Divorce
The skeleton
BED
I turn around, wave with her flowers
Lucozade
‘I did not promise to stay with you till death do us part’
Divorce
