Stripping The Blackthorn
Balderson, Lindsay
£7.00
Stripping The Blackthorn
By Lindsay Balderson
Vane Women Press, Darlington, 2008. 1st. Stapled Paperback. Approx size: 21cm H x 15cm W. 36pp. Condition: Used. Very Good. All pages present; No tears; No inscriptions; Clean and tight; Staples rusty.
Overall condition: Very Good.
Poetry
Early Words
If I could take the first loving
phrase you ever gave me
I would keep it safe behind glass.
I'd stretch it out and secure it so
gently, as one would a rare butterfly.
Preserved, I need then never lose it,
I could take it out and, in concentration,
hear it again whenever I needed
the antidote to your tounge's sting.