on Google Maps when you
type in the address of the old house
it looks like 2006 maybe
because the white Rover is parked outside
and your mother can be seen with a
blurred out face and a
full black bin bag in one hand
lifting the dustbin lid with the other
and six years later she is
standing there still indefinitely
—
‘the old house’ was published in 2016 as part of the UEA Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology, Undertow.
