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2014, arch, bench, bougainvillea, calm, Carol, clock, colour, cornice, dock, ferry, fish, Gran Canaria, green, plaza, returning, sill, sister, time, waiting, waves, windows
bougainvillea
it was the green bench
they had agreed to meet to get the ferry back to Puerto Rico
in the small plaza in Mogan
under the clock that doesn’t work
at ten to one
she waited for hours
after the designated time
different colours piped around each sill and window
all warm
and the bougainvillea yet just leaf
twining all the archways and cornices
and the shoals of fish at the dock
ever cutting alternate to quotidian wave
and caught
at last
the last boat home
the sister had already taken the next return
a year later we returned
the time was still ten to one
but this time bougainvillea-pretty
and calm
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bench wormhole: corner of Plum Lane / Eglinton Hill and / Shrewsbury Lane
Carol wormhole: hungry for a thread or two
green wormhole: ‘green plum jam on rye …’
time wormhole: the breath of London
waiting wormhole: Summertime, 1943
waves wormhole: left alone
windows wormhole: com- / mute
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