Cathy Grindrod
You stand on bathroom scales
to weigh your feet,
cry outside the carpet shop,
that red square in your hand
too small to fit your bedroom floor.
I point out the new moon.
You ask me where
the old one went.
You want to know where space is.
I tell you, ‘Everywhere.’ ‘There must be
a case round the space,’ you say.
You ask me, ‘If you die,
will only I be left?’ then say
your heart is hurting.
You start to crayon a map,
all the countries of the world,
heaven in the corner.
Cathy Grindrod is a poet from Derbyshire. Her latest poetry collection is Surrender, published by Five Leaves in 2022. She facilitates a programme of support and wellbeing for writers, The Writer Highway (http://www.thewriterhighway.co.uk)
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