Bunk Beds, Highfield Road

 70's nostalgia

 

Bunk Beds, HIGHFIELD Road

 

 

Tucked up in bed

She read us stories

of talking elephants

of Max and the Wild Things

of loaves and fishes,

One up one down

pyjamas and brushed teeth

prayers with eyes closed

and his sandpaper cheek goodnight

 

My aunty came to sit with me

after he fell out of the bunk bed,

They all went to the hospital

to have his head checked,

Breakfast was different that day

 

I don’t remember the heatwave

I do remember the cracking storm that broke

outside the window