The Strawberry-Yogurt Smell of Words

Once we made a telephone

– string, stretched between two yogurt pots.

‘Hello? Hello?’

Communication!

You spoke. I heard.

It’s a solitary game now,

the thumb-dance of text, beep of fax,

but I still recall the buzz of string,

the strawberry-yogurt

smell of words.

Mandy Coe