Jackie Wills
![Photo of Jackie Wills. She has long brown hair with flecks of grey, and red lipstick.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jackie-Wills-320x225.jpg)
The cutty’s goistering
The Friday Poem talks to poet and gardener Jackie Wills
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Apple blossom
by Jackie Wills — The year Dylan's mother died / I picked sprays of apple blossom, / wound its pink, off-white shades / in raffia for you to take to him. // Every year it's out I think of us, / the children, how apples bring / the tree so low, until they thud