How I fell in Love

The moment I was making stewed plumbs and realised I had fallen for my best friend, after we had spent a summer night stargazing on the green by the cathedral.

The way the spiced juice around stewed plumbs

Thick with honey

Bulges on hot hob

and swells

and bubble bursts-

That is how it happened.

Sweet honeyed air hot and claustrophobic clots, domed and

Fabricated in an instant and no more what now burning under metal

Just grass labyrinths imprinted on bare limbs, slung across cool grass.