Sunday, hot summer Sunday
No busses, hitch a ride
on the back of BK's frogeye sprite
2/6p? to get in if you didn't hop
the fence.
Communal changing rooms,
half wooden doors that swung open
with pointy bits trying to
catch a peep over the top.
Scream!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dump your clothes by the boys
Run! Spring board bomb!
Children wearing water wings
Scream!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh behave! we hear the mothers
In one piece swimsuits shout.
Teddy boy husbands
*** dangling lips trying to look hard.
They can't go in the pool
It would ruin their greasy hair
on their brickyard works summer day out.
The older girls with their
slim fitting poker dot bikinis
look down on you through
height of fashion sun glasses
as you jump over them
being chased by some girl
who didn't want her bra pinched.
Gail fills her bikini and then some
approval is hard to disguise,
Mo, Susan, Cath and many others
all came under lustful eyes
from the boys of summer.
Newport, Caerleon, Pontypool boys
All watch, wondering if they should have a go
but not today perhaps anther day when he's on his own.
Get dressed, cut off jeans tee shirt adidas trainers
Hitch home, get a lift if you're lucky
Then spin Beach boys "Do it again"
The lido was the only place to go
but they didn't really like me there,
16 was never an easy age.

Two
Young friends
on a garden swing
All those long years past
Swinging up high as they dare
Until knees would bend no more
Ground became as far away as stars
And there we surrendered to the universe
Marvelling at all it's menacing ogre
from a hunting bedroom owl
Before that curtain fall
Into our carefree days
interrupted only by
ice creamed
chimes.

I’d never noticed the blemish before
Right there by the dew on her thigh
I’d never noticed it before even close
But then who leaves the light on.

I’m that hungry with love for you
That I would eat you all up
Particularly your dessert
In perfect harmony
I’d leave the cream pie
Until last.

I know where you live
You live at the end of the sea.
All the way to uncharted waters
And undreamt shores
Then I who is of this colour.
Circles you count from a solitary pebble.
I who wave after wave surrendered to your insatiable Jade
He who waited to be mounted in patient stillness an uncalming beast.
I know where you live.
You live at the end of the sea.