Red wine fruit flies

You came for the pear molasses
on my kitchen shelf

three tummies full of fruity goodness
recklessly rolling around
in this deep lagoon

without any thought
of how you might get out.

 

 

Claire Aster has always been a keen reader of poetry and this past year has began writing her own work. She lives with her dog Emma, in a small village on the Ayrshire Coast, Scotland.