Devouring Time
for Erica Rolle
of Uriah McPhee 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
Medbah McGuckian’s Selected Poems

she eats and enjoys cookie after cookie

reading page after page, I look and I wonder,
are her sweets as sweet as mine

the bus on East Street, heading down town


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