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ANNE Brook |
Anne Brooke has been writing for fifteen years and is the author of numerous short stories and poetry. She has twice been the winner of the DSJT Charitable Trust Open Poetry Award. She was shortlisted for the Royal Literary Fund awards in 2004, and for the Asham Award for Women Writers in 2003. She is one of the directors of new publishing company, Goldenford Publishers, and her novel, Café Society, will be published by them in 2006. More information can be found at www.annebrooke.com or at www.goldenford.co.uk
Reunion
On the road I see you again, your body
framed against white sky
and I realise as if for the first time
how long I have left my heart
unsung.
No reason now for you
to quicken your pace
as you catch the sight of me
but still you do,
one arm raised as if my attention
has not been ravished
a thousand times already
in this one unguarded moment
of silken betrayal.
Now in a hot stray second
out of time
we almost touch, your fingers
brush my jacket sleeve,
leaving a scar more consuming
than if you had stroked flesh
and see our lips
taste promises
our tongues and teeth
cannot fulfil and I know
I will not bear this empty road
again.