For our second set of Poems of the Week, Danielle Hope shares a poem for Bell House.
April
[ey-pruhl]
Mrs Uomo’s gardening diary instructs her
this is the time to
weed protect tie feed sow
Mrs Uomo starts
with feed
lips smeared with traces of apricot thumbprint cookie
she reads
April is a mere mispronunciation
of aperire or Aphrodite
April fool [ey-pruhl fool]
1 noun the victim of a trick on April Fools' Day
2 noun a jape played on that day
in the post from Mrs Harris
a miniature spaghetti tree
easy to tend as an Aspidistra
last year
a postcard from the island of Garamond
Apron [ey-pruhn]
1 noun garment protecting clothing on the front of the body
while cooking gardening feeding …
4 noun furniture’s skirt
5 noun the golf course’s outer border full of lost shots
20 verb to surround in the manner of an apron
little word many meanings
Mrs Uomo’s row of spaghetti trees apron her unweeded lawn
By Danielle Hope
From - Mrs Uomo’s yearbook
(published by Rockingham Press, 2015 )