Ralph Dartford

OXFORD BLUE

I had this great big thing
with this little small town flirt,
but now she’s gone away
still wearing my Oxford Blue shirt.
I bet it’s not tucked in,
it’s flapping around her thighs;
top two buttons strategically undone,
a treat for some new boy's eyes.
I’m not saying that I’m jealous,
I’m not saying that I’m hurt,
I never really cared for her,
but I loved that Oxford Blue shirt.

Date of Birth:	March 14, 1963
Location:	London, England
Email:	RDARTFORD@aol.com
Publications:	Pulp, Factions, The Living Room, Technopagen, Territories Magazine, abctales.com.co.uk, etc.
Awards:	Eastern Arts Writers Bursary, ABCtales.com Writer of the Week

- March 2002 - Dear Anna Sonnets in a Land of Prose Calling The Minnows Oxford Blue Ficus Aurea Playing it Back what we will plant unto the breech some more Ars Poetica Elegy For My Mother Standing Under a Street Lamp on the Corner of Brice Court Escaping the terrible fish Sadie song for stephanie it will always be the season of famine somewhere Adieu - John Turner's Best Of - the disgruntled women's chorus sings accompaniment on the beta male blues How to Build an Impossible Staircase Trying to Raise the Dead How to Kiss The Grassfires of the Resistance Rishikesh