hard frost
in the garden
shivering dogs
© Rachel Green January 2024
growing up
is done in sharp increments.
At fourteen, when my mother died;
at eighteen, when I went to uni;
at twenty-one when I moved to Wolverhampton.
Every time I moved house
I discarded a little more;
books; games; collections; art;
relationships and dogs.
Eventually I'll become an adult
but I'm only sixty, yet.
© Rachel Green January 2024
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