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Just like Eve

Magi Gibson

I could have brought you
whisky to warm you on winter nights,
poems full of words to fill your silences

I could have brought you
armfuls of flowers
to fill your rooms with summer,
scented petals to scatter where you dream

I could have brought
olives, shiny, black and green,
anchovies and Parmesan,
Chianti, deep blood-red

I could have brought
figs, dates, cumquats, lychees
tastes to make your senses sing
to set your soul adrift

Instead I brought
forbidden fruit
the one and only gift
you would not accept


Magi Gibson

from Wild Women of a Certain Age (Edinburgh: Chapman Publishing, 2000)

Reproduced by permission of the author

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gifts giving sensuality unrequited love wooing and courtship
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Magi Gibson is a poet, children's author and creative writing tutor.
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