I was six when I first saw the cats drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, ‘the scaggy wee shits’.

Sure Isn’t it better for them now? Dan said.

Suddenly frightened…

Suddenly frightened For days I sadly hung round the yard, watching the three sogged remains turn mealy and crispy.

And now when shrill pups are prodded to drown I just shrug, ‘Bloody pups’. It makes sense.

But on well-run farms pest have to be kept down.

When all the others were away at mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes.

Cold comforts set between us, things to share

So while the parish priest at her bedside went hammers and tongs at the prayers for the dying

I remembered her head bent towards my head, her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives-Never closer the whole rest of our lives.

Given heavy rain and sun for a full week, blackberries would ripen

You ate that first one and it’s flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summers blood was in it

Until the tinkling bottom had been covered with green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes, with thorn pricks our palms stick as bluebeards

But when the bath….

But when the bath was filled we found a fur, a rat grey fungus glutting on our cache.

I always felt like crying , it wasn’t fair that all out lovely Canfuls smelled of rot. I always wished they’d keep knowing they would not.

In the porch i met my father crying. He had always taken funerals in his stride. And big Jim Evan’s saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and rocked the pram

Away at school as my mother held my hand, in herd and coughed out angry tearless sighs.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

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Question	Answer
I was…	I was six when I first saw the cats drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, ‘the scaggy wee shits’.
‘Sure,…	Sure Isn’t it better for them now? Dan said.
Suddenly frightened…	Suddenly frightened For days I sadly hung round the yard, watching the three sogged remains turn mealy and crispy.
And now,….	And now when shrill pups are prodded to drown I just shrug, ‘Bloody pups’. It makes sense.
But on…	But on well-run farms pest have to be kept down.
When all…	When all the others were away at mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes.
Cold…	Cold comforts set between us, things to share
So while the…	So while the parish priest at her bedside went hammers and tongs at the prayers for the dying
I remembered her…	I remembered her head bent towards my head, her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives-Never closer the whole rest of our lives.
Late August…	Given heavy rain and sun for a full week, blackberries would ripen
You ate that….	You ate that first one and it’s flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summers blood was in it
Until the…	Until the tinkling bottom had been covered with green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes, with thorn pricks our palms stick as bluebeards
But when the bath….	But when the bath was filled we found a fur, a rat grey fungus glutting on our cache.
I always felt	I always felt like crying , it wasn’t fair that all out lovely Canfuls smelled of rot. I always wished they’d keep knowing they would not.
In the porch	In the porch i met my father crying. He had always taken funerals in his stride. And big Jim Evan’s saying it was a hard blow.
The baby…	The baby cooed and rocked the pram
Away at school…	Away at school as my mother held my hand, in herd and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
A four foot..	A four foot box, a foot for every year.

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