What is it that you profoundly love?
Pyjamas deep baths camping
how everyone lives in tents sky
earth the usual teenagers on protests
hand written signs for peace
My husband in a shirt & tie on a zoom call
tiny orange shorts just for me
at a café yesterday the menu had a sign
that said ask us about marshmallows
Dog’s noses. Jan says widely I love birds!
Birds are such dear things
no kids all day! I love my kids but is love
happiness though? Cheryl
questions. My toddler, she’s just started playing
by herself I watch her just making cakes with sand
My friend Peter. Before he spoke how he made a rasp like
his body was warming up. How he said,
when my colleague took his life
wow I just could never do that
with such conviction I totally believed him
I love birds too I remember
holding a little one perhaps a wren
as a child in my hands
Sapphire Allard is a writer and teacher living in Sussex. Her work has been previously published by Poetry Ireland Review, Mslexia, Ambit, The Selkie and many others.