Lemons One winter term, back home from school, I took a matchstick dipped in lemon juice, wrote a cursive message in the dusk and held it up to the bleach of light, watching the ascorbic flow shine briefly with a love-sick glow and dry back into paper as two sash-windows, gathering dark, faded just above the watermark. Later, with the lamp switched on, the fire lit in the grate, I sneaked up close and held the thin sheet out, saw the letters mottle one by one, tortoise-shell on pokerwork crisped and furled into a phrase: This is a secret message. No one must know. I love you. After an acid week or two I got browned off or just outgrew the need to write to her invisibly but hearing today that she died last year from cancer in Australia find hidden in the reckless scent of lemons, their burning groves, their tangled thirstiness, their stained and singed lost blistering of letters, a zest her bitten thumbnails still release.

John Levett

Lemons

One winter term, back home from school,. I took a matchstick dipped in lemon juice, wrote a cursive message in the dusk and held it up to the bleach of light, watching the ascorbic flow shine briefly with a love-sick glow and dry back into paper as two sash-windows, gathering dark, faded just above the watermark. Later, with ...
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