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Valerie Darville, London

Poems on the Buses Exhibition

A heatwave summer.
I, fifteen years old,
in a gathered skirt,
a clean white blouse
and my first high heels.
Haunting the park;
hunting for boys.
The scent of the grass;
the ache in my heart.