Jane And Memories 2021.

She sits in the small church

where they once sat,

she talking to him

about the simplicity

of the inner church,

the plain wooden pews,

the small bronze cross

at the altar end,

and he talking of the city

he had just left behind,

getting all the business

off his young mind,

she sensing

her body's awakening,

his voice and presence

making tingling in her spine.

Now she sits

remembering young love,

how it came that spring,

grew in summer,

but then his father

changed his job

and they moved away

for ever and a day.

She closes her ageing eyes

and smells the flowers

she brought to the church

and the fragrance

reminds her of him

that year six decades ago

and the coming of winter

and falling snow.