Cocktails at six, their first clink of a toast
almost spilling both
So sticky, so green, such a Belle Époque sheen
she'd seen in a French magazine
Peppery, spicy, yet enticingly sweet
a meeting, indiscreet
Her weakness Martini, his a Manhattan
two comme il faut olives, one green and one black
Absurd how their hands lingered over the snacks
that contact, electric
Just a couple of olives, some discarded pits
- just how they left it.
For Grace’s MTB prompt we are Breaking the Couple – our writing explores the different ways couplet lines can mismatch, either disrupting rhyme, altering meter or adding discontinuity
Title is a line from Stephen Sandy’s poem: Modest Proposals
