It was a privilege to have Mark Tredinnick launch my interactive poetry book, 'Angels, like laundry'.
Broken Watch
The small child picks up her father’s watch
and treasures this talisman of one she loves.
She plays with it, imagining herself like him
wearing a big watch in the wide world
then drops it,
smashing the face
into fragments.
Heart stopped
at what she has done
she turns to receive
her judgment.
And I react with anger -
destroying her dreams of wearing watches
in the wide world
as I make
the fragile face turned towards me
shatter into shards of tears.
I pick up the broken watch -
and hope there is still time.