OLD SLIPPERS
You wrap yourself around my life like old slippers to my feet... warm, comforting and blessedly familiar. Yet as my body stretches, curls and yields hungrily to the touch of your love, suddenly - and with unexpected caution -I remember how old slippers fall apart eventually and offer, in the main, no protection against the damp and biting cold of winter.
For centuries writers have used the ordinary, the familiar, to forge links with their readers. A crucial twist in the plot of relies on a handkerchief. John Donne’s seduction techniques are demonstrated via a louse. The play depends on J. B. Priestley’s use of the device of the cigarette box. Carol Ann Duffy approaches the vast and
