The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Jackie Wills

Photo of Jackie Wills. She has long brown hair with flecks of grey, and red lipstick.

The cutty’s goistering

The Friday Poem talks to poet and gardener Jackie Wills
Black text on white reads ‘Apple blossom by Jackie Wills’ with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the word ‘Apple’.

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