Monday, 19 May 2025

19th May 2025

 

overcast

new furniture arrives

assembly day


© Rachel Green May 2025


VIII.I


Her tobacco and her papers at the till

have a total cost of one pound and five pence.

She empties out her bag, starts counting coins to fill

the invoice , though the shopkeeper seems tense.

She slide across a pile of change for him to count again

which he does with a look like holding grudge;

slams it in the money tray and hands her back a ten

that she uses up to buy a Cadbury's Fudge.

"Are you okay?" she asks, as she looks up

deep into eyes of deepest chocolate brown;

He looks away and gestures to the door with coffee cup

"It's that bloke who just left that brings me down."


© Rachel Green May 2025


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