published in Party Time Poets (Arrival Press)
ISBN 1 85786 349 6 / ISBN 1 85786 354 2
january 1996
                                     nice party
 
 
 
“help yourself to anything you want”
 
                                I didn’t understand
 
so I sat cross-legged on the sofa
                       peeling an orange
 
                                      fingers stinging
 
                        and then it happened...
 
                                     my eyes betrayed my feelings
                                        and tears slid down my face
 
               never before had I had this feeling
 
I’ve never seen it since