clearing rain
but the wind is blowing
fireworks cordite
© Rachel Green January 2023
Bromsgrove Saturday market
in the mid-nineteen eighties
trinkets and silver jewellery
and an ear-piercing stall
for fifty pence per ear.
I argued that two piercings in my left
should still be fifty pence
but she charged a pound regardless.
I haven't worn a stud in that hole
in over twenty years, but it's still there,
and now I've lost a stetcher bar
somewhere in the bed.
© Rachel Green January 2023
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