Housewarming party
Sandra Noel
Next   door’s   pristine   garden  is  choked with
surgeons and politics. I think of Yvonne telling me
how men in suits send her running. Hubbie peers
over the fence, decides their lawn  won’t survive
that many heels. He reckons the woman in blue
will get her sparkle stilettos stuck down the mole
hole, it  tunnelled  under our  fence last night to
escape the ten bulbs of garlic he shoved in the soil.Â
It’s dusk when the music dies. Tittering peters out.
Our child takes off the too large headphones, says
next door’s happy is too loud.
Sandra Noel is a poet from Jersey, Channel Islands. She enjoys finding new ways to write about the everyday. Sandra’s poems appear in The Phare, Strix, Prole, 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 ‘Into The Under’ published by Yaffle’s Nest, Yaffle Press is launching in the summer of 2024.