Last Night
the moon like one of your fingernails
hangs in the sky
blotting out sleep
a child’s dreams have held me
awake all night
daddy’s sorry daddy’s sorry
daddy won’t do it again
across the great gulf from your place in hell
are you sorry, daddy?
Grace Andreacchi is a novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent’s Tail) and the chapbook Berlin Elegies. Find out more here.