Urban Physic Garden

Nineteen eighty-three
(post-pizza
pre-sushi).
 
She had to teach
me how to eat:
dipping scales
in olive oil;
flesh stripped
between teeth.
 
We undressed
the hairy choke -
getting to the heart
beneath.
 
This all happened
(more or less)
along with
Chardonnay
and sex.
 
 
Tim Cresswell
(From Herbarium, a new poetry anthology. Launch and reading 22 July)