Left Overs by Jan Moran Neil

I’ve got all the bits and bobs
left over from the words I’ve lopped off
this poem and that and stuck them in a doc
the way my mum used to slice and trim
the pastry from the pie’s brim
and roll it into one big doughy bit
and tell me, “We’ll cook and jam it
and make it work hard.”

But never did she say,
“You’ll make a footnote* out of that one day.”

• Just got a Masters’ poetry assignment in and this is what was left over.

We still have a few leftover tickets for the Gavin Extence talk this Thursday if you want to email me. £5 on the door. The Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield.

Thank you lovely Missenden Abbey writers for a great workshop on Saturday. Although Creative Ink classes are full, enrolment forms for January will be out next week.