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Two steps higher

Wind-blonde baby girl to the apple swing green teen Caught in a photoclock

Ticking between sepia prints and sun-bathed transparencies that Step time in thirty-six frames.

To me she is always a sister two steps higher

One plait longer, a leather satchel, bugger Brahms and beret An Energen rush, pram-push further on

Umpteen classes of little Kitties and Dickens And thousands of well-tramped

Treks and paintings, poems and friends.

Seventy steps forward toward a

Superwoman set in these chalk downs of Kent Past the burrow of Harrow

To West Peckham where her spring chicks gather and grow like daffs.


April 21, 2015