Childspeak

  

  

 But oh! sun's in the sky and high as a tree,

(says a child of this place!)
and that's too high to see. And so she eats-
and-goes & goes outside,

frantic with bread crumbs on her chin
 

& colours, some dozen, splashed

across the lawn that like being with her there

(like green on a bee on a leaf!)

and even drop from each eye as she's crying

And asked why she cries,

she puts a Sweet William to her ear, to hear

with its smooth-bladed ear,

and says the nest's stuffed up with fluff,

alone up there, & just fell

and 'honestly' made the fluffiest stuff that

                                          ever fell