war exhibition
the crawling toddler
has lost a shoe

(Weston Park Museum, Sheffield. 22 Feb 2015)

Sunday morning
the passing conversations
of joggers

bobbing above
the kids' pool
his hipster beard

expecting their first
the couple opposite
ironing baby-grows

feeling better she asks to die

It's eight and a half years since my mum died but these poems still pop up with some sort of regularity