Homecoming
\nby cricketjeff on February 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n
+++++++++++
\nLANDING TONIGHT
\n++++STOP++++
\nTHERE BY 8
\n++++STOP++++
\nNORWICH
\n++++STOP++++<\/p>\n
The telegram
\nputs her life in a spin.<\/p>\n
Almost two years of letters
\ntwo months of silence
\nand now six words.<\/p>\n
The dress was ready,
\nwas she?<\/p>\n
His fingers,
\noh! she remembered his fingers,
\nlong and strong
\npianists fingers
\nlovers fingers
\nhis fingers.<\/p>\n
Her back tingles
\nin expectation.<\/p>\n
She remembers his lips,
\nstrong masculine,
\ntasty lips
\nin a kiss
\nshe cannot forget.
\nHer breasts remember them too.<\/p>\n
She must be calm.
\nShe has put on lipstick for other men,
\nother times,
\nother dances
\nbut this is different.<\/p>\n
Thousands of miles
\nto meet her lips
\nher body
\nher.<\/p>\n
The clock struck seven
\nas she sat to dress,
\nnow the third quarter
\nstrikes and there is
\nnothing left but to wait.<\/p>\n
They will dance together
\nuntil,
\nunnoticed
\nthey can leave
\nfor the balcony
\nand she will be his again.<\/p>\n
Just as before
\nwhen she gave herself
\non the night he left for Korea.<\/p>\n
The only time she was ever alive,
\nuntil tonight
\nand that knock
\non her door …<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nBritish poets old enough to have sent a telegram will know that NORWICH means<\/p>\n
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Homecoming by cricketjeff on February 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved +++++++++++ LANDING TONIGHT ++++STOP++++ THERE BY 8 ++++STOP++++ NORWICH ++++STOP++++ The telegram puts her life in a spin. Almost two years of letters two months of silence and now six words. The dress was ready, was she? His fingers, oh! she remembered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3580\/revisions\/7928"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}