A Boutique Shared Her Name - Kay Medway
poem read by Timothy Arliss OBrien
A Boutique Shared Her Name
Kay Medway
If Nan liked someone’s outfit,
we’d hear her list it rhythmically and praise with poet-like precision:
“She wore bronze colours in summer on a smock-length top,
with white stripes, three-quarter-length trousers,
sandals or cushioned new trainers, immaculate nails – big phone case,
nothing out of place.”
If she saw you, she’d take stylist-like tips, borrow a colour scheme.
I’m looking for a shirt now in the same blue she wore.
A boutique shared her name: purses, charms, and belts for sale in metallic materials.
A jewellery designer gave her a business card, offered more clip-ons, and said,
“Let me know if there are
beads or colours you’re after.”
She said it with a flourish as she left. People do like them earrings, after all.
Kay Medway works full-time in a library. Kay writes poetry in her free time and has a poem for children in The
Dirigible Balloon's Chasing Clouds anthology to raise funds for The National Literacy Trust. Kay has one of
her poems in the Dirigible Balloon anthology called Sky Surfing Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon to
raise funds for Juvenile Arthritis Research charity. Kay has had poems published by Disabled Tales & BBC
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