Curved around Cromer Pier a twitching mass of legs, 

sturdy calves, socks, sandals.  Fathers scoop up bait, 

wind black thread onto pink plastic spools.

An old couple, in matching anoraks,

watch a thin man, wheel-chair bound.

He shakily lifts his thermos flask.

I thought of you then and the creaking stair lift,

the plastic roll-up seat, raising her in and out of the bath.

The small wooden cart you made

so she can travel through the orchard

inspecting the new fruit with her crooked hands.

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This was published in The Pocket Poetry Book of Love, Paper Swans Press, 2018.

I’m based in Manchester, UK.  My poems have been widely anthologised and published in a range of magazines. My first collection Another Life was published by Oversteps Books (2016) and a second collection Nothing serious, nothing dangerous will be published this autumn by Indigo Dreams.