Girls of Slender Legs

Driving home through the shoals of

long-legged foals took me back to

less puritanical times, to

Liverpool in the 70’s when

“schoolies” were fair game, with their

skirts rolled up, their

satchels and sarcasm, their

white socks and dark hearts, so

ready to be led astray they

often gave you a roadmap,

driving you on with their

slender legs around your waist, their

school-shod heels urging more,

deeper, faster, longer, in the

language of Chaucer with a

Scouse accent.