
Nectarines
Nectarines is Amber's first collection of poetry written over an intensive period between January 2021 and June 2022. Expected to ship at the end of October 2024.
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Nectarines
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We lifted buckets
Buckets of nectarines
How did you make so
Many?
Peas
I loved you picking one and letting me eat
One
Flowers
Dragon snaps
Peaches, apples, pink and red flowers and of
Course;
Buckets of nectarines
Little did you know you were a magician;
Tales were told
Tales were to be telled
But you were a fisherman
You brought the food home
You only had one pair of shoes to share
With your brother
But you were a sportsman
You were an architect
You knew all
You were good and Guinness
But you healed me – lifted as a little
Girl
In your arms
Tasting nectarines –
I was safe there
For a time
Whose story do
We tell?
For I ate nectarines
And above all
Mischievous man
You were my Grandad
You are my Grandad
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Written by Amber Lavinia