My Salford whirlwind

for Melanie Rees

My Salford whirlwind, blazing blue eyes, tight blonde curls

Make-up met none, my trainers scuffed your 6 inch heels

and now you prop my world up with your words

My Salford whirlwind, blazing blue eyes, tight blonde curls

We cry at each other’s poems about loss and birth    

Hug as others finish the words we can’t read real.

My Salford whirlwind, blazing blue eyes, tight blonde curls

Make-up met none, my trainers scuffed your 6 inch heels