Unblemished

Unblemished

Mary Clement Mannering

The grass a carpet of peaches
Rotted and wasped
We were too late
too late
The last molasses days
Of summer trickling
But just one
Unblemished peach
Halved for my sister
Before she left for good
And took half of me too

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Mary Clement Mannering
Poet

Mary Clement is a debuting poet and student at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, where she is the president of the Creative Writing Society. She studies and works in Creative Media, though her first love is poetry. 

Photography by Vlad Deep