Space

I was nothing more than a bag of sugar

A summer gift never rejoiced

The cat in the floor tiles smiles

Not all good things are born at Christmas time

The jam jars sit pretty on the shelf

Time to peel the labels off

Alice squeals and claps like a lunatic

Fingers sticky until twelve o'clock

In the winter came a bag of toys 

We would have traded them for love

Outside heavy births of rain

Like planets falling she giggles

We pull on the threads of angels

Untangle their wishes and dreams

Let’s hitch a ride and fly into space 

She wipes the jam off her lips

Hyper fix

The milk sits quietly in the fridge

I used eight percent

Our hair still smells like hospital sheets

Let's put our words on the table

Crash bang

The building falls down

The little girl sleeps underground

Fear makes the wolf look bigger 

Grandmother wrote on the wall

She smelt old whispers Alice

Liquorice and linen tucked in drawers forever and ever and ever

I will remember every moment of you 

You will not be lost

Even when time spreads thin

And spins like plates

On top of dwindling poles

A tower of fruit cake stands on the side 

Some kind of crafty endeavour

Ready steady tumble down

Tread carefully 

I say

Like rain

Like snow

Like a summer gift barely touched in the night .