She Fears Burglars Will Take Her Special Stuff
Sandra Noel
The woman somehow knows the importance of the posh pen, its gold clip styling the handsome man’s pocket in their wedding photo. Often, she feels she’s on the brink of recall.Â
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Her GP uses it to write the prescription she needs someone to fetch. Tonight the pen will cache under her pillow with the co-op stamps, door keys, his unwound watches.Â
Sandra Noel is a poet from Jersey, Channel Islands.  She enjoys writing about the everyday in unusual ways. Sandra’s poems appear in The Phare, Flights, Black Nore, Yaffle, Indigo Dreams, Ekphrastic Review, The Lake, Guernsey Bus and others. She has poems longlisted, shortlisted and highly commended in competitions during 2023. Her first collection will be published in 2024 by Yaffle Press.