R.I.P. The Bay Horse

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Carole Bromley is a York-based poet who writes for both adults and children. Winner of a number of prizes, including the Bridport, Hamish Canham and the Caterpillar prize, she is published by Smith/Doorstop and Valley Press. Her website is www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk 

Date Night

Back early from the ballet,
you park the car, I turn the key

in time for the Ten O’Clock News
when I hear two cries,

one from the baby upstairs
and the other, I see round the door,

from the babysitter
on the hearthrug with a stranger

performing a pas de deux
I hadn’t bargained for.

 

Carole Bromley lives in York where she is the Stanza rep and runs poetry surgeries for the Poetry Society. Two books with Smith/Doorstop and a collection for children, Blast Off!, due out June 2017 www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk