Sharon Frost

[Nick]

Pale
smooth
unblemished skin
Thin
straight nose line
Smiling
Cupid's bow lips

Hair so blonde it was almost white
Blue eyes
not piercing
happy
kind

She invited me to her house

There was a problem with the
cupboard hinge

'Could I fix it?'

I didn't know how

Told her and her mother
'I was sorry'

Went home,
never went back

Always felt
I left something there
Intangible
irretrievable


We were 14 that year


Now
60 days from 56th birthday
it seems it happened
last week


Always act from the heart
pardner


What you do
never
leaves you