Devouring Time
for Erica Rolle
of Uriah McPree
Primary School

little school girl in uniform
here on the bus beside me

reaches into her bag
extracts a cookie

I reach into mine
extract Medbh McGuckian's
Selected Poems

she eats, enjoys,
cookie after cookie

are her sweets as sweet as mine
I look and I wonder
reading, turning pages

the bus on East Street,
heading for town


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
3:50 p.m. 19.09.08