Name: Washing
Duration: P00H02M33S
Description: the 79th and final poem from Six Months of Orange and White Soaked in Musk

Washing

by Christopher Sanderson

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the 79th and final poem from Six Months of Orange and White Soaked in Musk

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The shirts are dry and the underwear is so too
Soon it will be the time for the line of the hot iron
To discover and to deepen the colour of your blue
That blue which speaks to you as in the Speakeasy
Those Jazz nights at the Upper George in Halifax
Or down the stainless steel road at Stocksbridge's Silver Fox
A blue then with fusion links just as the Pelikan ink stains
The letters sent one by one to a close though distant lover
Or the words penned for one yet meant entirely for another

The jeans are dry and the wool socks are so too
Soon it will be the time for the layer and the care of folding
To organise and tidy making up the altogether neater you
The you that changes because for you change comes easy
As for that celebration dinner at the Idle Rocks in St Mawes
Or for high society on Ladies Day at Glorious Goodwood
The you that struts his stuff yet also poses as the flaneur
Clothes so finely cut by a tailor or by an experienced brute
Worn with a suit and a jacket over silk stockings and brogues

The morning was warm and dry the afternoon is so too
But you know that soon will be the time for the drawing in
For us to phase out this memory of summer and thus
To give me and the washing folk out there a clearer view

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released December 16, 2016
Christopher Sanderson :: Writer and Speaker

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Christopher Sanderson England, UK

Christopher is a poet, a writer, a meditation teacher and a creative writing workshop facilitator; a catalogue of most of his work can be found at poetryshop.co.uk, a short summary of the past few years of his life can be found at coastmoor.co.uk