heart beating black as the blues

Here's the title poem as taken from the pictured, and rather wonderful, 1996 Adrian Mitchell collection:


Blue Coffee

Blue coffee
the air was like
Blue coffee

Frothy cow's parsley
Either side of the path
Across the Heath

Blue coffee
The whirling air was like
Blue coffee

Up jumped a poppy in scarlet
Her heart beating black as the blues

Blue coffee
The swirling, spiralling air
Blue coffee

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Adrian Mitchell (1932 - 2008)

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