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Outside the One Stop
Myfanwy Fox
A puddle’s sludge has settled
beneath its skin of oil.
Khaled proffers his Big Issues
to oblivious passers-by.
Our wettest winter’s clouds
reflect as livid bruises
in an diesel sheen.
When the next storm breaks
shoppers abandon pavements
for Costa’s welcome
or the Co-Op’s familiar aisles.
Khaled takes refuge
in the doorway
of a boarded-up bookshop.
Hail stones pock the puddle’s
gunmetal slurry.
From a Quaker family, Myfanwy Fox took a biology degree, working in Cambridge, Britain, and Stanford, US, in biology, psychology and psychiatry departments. In between she has worked on a pig farm, as a hotel maid, an accountant, in catering and retail. She can milk a cow, lay a hedge, wield a pickaxe and paint watercolours. She began writing fiction in 2001 and poetry in 2003.
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter.
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