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This is entirely true and occurred whist I was working voluntarily at a West African psychiatric hospital a few years ago ..

Cova

Cova spoke most fondly of her

   Andalusian sea ..

She also spoke five languages

   including mine ..

Cova wore no prints upon her

pretty finger tips

and at first, I thought she was

   a Basque spy ..

Cova carried the scent of rock

pools and raw cotton

      in her close cropped black hair ..

We argued over

    Dali, Freud and Cohen relentlessly ..

Apparently,

her husband was in love with old

manuscripts

and had stayed at home,

   hence her being there on her own ..

I introduced her

to butterfish and we watched as

vultures gorged

   on something dying in the gutter ..

Her naked foot

caught mine covertly beneath

the table and she

hinted there might be something

   special between us ..

Cova then promised me something

extraordinary

if I walked with her along the beach

   and back to her hotel ..

  But when I returned having paid the bill,

  she had well and truly gone ..

 

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    1. Great write and deserving of a silver medal.
      Cova left because she knew if she stayed three people would suffer.What a beautiful kind soul she was.
      Just think, she’s out there somewhere reading a poem or singing a song and there you are ….right there in her mind.
      See….she never left you.
      🙏

    2. What a deliriously delightful thought you have left here for me .. Thanks a million Peter .. Seasons best & all good things for the swiftly approaching New Year .. Neville

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