Phone message
doctor's appointment tomorrow
No idea why
© Rachel Green October 2025
Green Shield Stamps
Princes' Salmon Spread sold in little pots
to those too poor to purchase tins of fresh
where tiny bones are softened by the jots
of brine between the pink and tender flesh.
But cheaper still the supermarket brand
in jars with pop-off metal vacuum lids
and spread so thinly by my mother's hand
to make a single jar serve all her kids.
and all the glassware pots she'd wash and save
though without lids they had no rhyme or use
just stored in cardboard boxes for the days
when they might fill a need as yet obtuse.
But at my mother's wake we served the host
the best tinned fish on fresh-baked bits of toast.
© Rachel Green October 2025
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