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8th November, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘If We Were in Llandudno’ by Wendy Allen

Photo of Llandudno seafront taken from the pebbled beach.

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘If We Were in Llandudno’ by Wendy Allen from her newly published pamphlet Portrait in Mustard.

If We Were in Llandudno
Today you ask if I remember
when we went to Llandudno for my 20th birthday.
You still have the train ticket.
Did we drink tea from polystyrene cups
or pints of snakebite? Did I wear a floral dress
like twenty-four years later
still wearing too much make up?
Your clothes fall off the same way
corduroy sounds in my mouth.
You were always writing something
political in the university newspaper office.
I wrote blank pages, drank pints, thought about how
I was falling in love with you and if
we were in Llandudno again,
I’d tell you—