I pulled up my collar.
Discreet dark-blue scarf
wrapped around my mouth.
Dark glasses.
Right at the front.
Conspicuous
but for the camera.
Just another groupie.
Hundreds of years
after leaving this town
I had nothing better
to do than freeze
on this winter day in London,
outside my famous
ex’s town house.
And there he was.
A common sound rose,
a sonorous sigh.
His new blonde trophy
tried to make herself visible.
He remained firm.
there could only be one
point of interest.
For a moment I thought
he had seen through my disguise.
For a moment I wanted
my camera to be a gun.
A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives in Lima, Peru. Author of two novels, one full-length poetry collection and two chapbooks, her work has been widely published in mostly US poetry journals. Her latest full-length poetry manuscript, “The Rain Girl,” has been accepted for publication in June 2020 by Blue Nib. Her poem, “Old Love’s Sonnet,” has been nominated for a Pushcart by Shark Reef Journal where it was published in the Summer of 2019.
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