Greetings, Poetry Lovers! Intriguing title eh? Certainly got me looking!
This is the title of another beauty, penned by the lovely and talented Trisha Broomfield. Bringing back the memory that we’ve all been to school with someone like this, a classmate who outgrows us very quickly……
Read on
The Second Stain
She’d missed double maths,
no surprise, we thought she’d be skiving
off somewhere,
during needlework, she reappeared
brittle blonde newly backcombed
frosted fudge lipstick overdone
a languid look in her smoky eyes
a glint of knowing, a hint of,
don’t dare ask, 
suddenly she was older than us
her clothes, pulled on in haste
bunched odd buttons together
but it wasn’t that
nor the fact that someone had seen her
lying flat in the graveyard grass
a biker beside her
it was the stain the shape of a
continent
on the front of her white blouse
with a matching one,
a second stain
dark like Coca Cola
on the back
Trisha Broomfield
I’ve tagged a nice glamorous one of Trisha on the end here as a Thank You. Wasn’t that a joy? Keep them coming, Trisha.
Thanks for looking in, PL’s. Don’t touch that dial because we have an interview with the enigmatic and amazing Math Jones coming up…..so get queuing! Same time, same channel….
Heather Moulson 