AFTER BIOLOGY IN 1962.

Reynard and I
held back
after biology
while the other kids

 

had gone
and we walked up
the corridor
I could have scored that goal

 

lunchtime
if Goldfinch
hadn't got
in my way

 

he's always
where you don't
want him to be
Reynard said

 

I saw Jeanette
walking ahead of us
with her blonde friend Angela
Jeanette had class

 

I thought
her friend
was a short
mouthy girl

 

but Jeanette
was quite reserved
and looked at you
as if you had stepped

 

in her sunshine
but I liked her
and that quick kiss
I snatched the other day

 

still felt stuck

on my lips
Angela had short tight
blonde curls

 

Jeanette had long
dark hair reaching
her shoulders
I gazed

 

at her thin figure
her arms by her side
the satchel
over her shoulder

 

Reynard was still talking
about the football lunchtime
I was looking
at Jeanette’s sway

 

of hips almost unseen
yet visible
to the trained eye
the way her legs

 

came down
to her well heeled shoes
the white ankle socks
think we ought

 

to try get Frazer
on our side
he'd be great in goal
better than Dunton

 

the prat
he couldn't save a goal
if the ball
was as big as he was

 

Reynard said
yes we must get Frazer
I said
wondering how I’d get

 

that kiss
that Jeanette promised
the lips tempting
and her cheek

 

just visible
the place my lips
touched
the other day

 

and the kiss
just stayed there
and wouldn't
go away.

 

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