Poems

Marilyn Peck: ‘The Solicitor’ and ‘nineteen forties’

haiku: nineteen forties blue orchids and their girls are slow dancing in wartime moonlight serenades  our boys fly spitfires to save Britain from the Bosch at home mothers pray when the boys come home spotlights show slow jazz dancing ragtime slow-drag blues Marilyn Peck   Haiku: The Solicitor the solicitor told me to bury the bone of contention don’t tell anyone the nitty gritty skirting around the full truth anyone can have complaints about smoky air but who lit the fire Marilyn Peck

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