low clouds
but the weather is turning
allergy boom
© Rachel Green August 2020
six years old
and delighted by shiny things
He finds a marble
half-buried in the flowerbed
glinting in the sunshine
and his eyes light up.
Ra-ra, he says, help me find more
and we spend an hour
unearthing marbles,
old coins, pennies
and coloured beads.
You'd think it was the treasure of the Incas
to judge by his excitement
and I remember being his age
and finding a single lost thing
never mind the hundreds
I scattered here when he was born.
© Rachel Green August 2020
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