Porosis
Such a soggy word –
like dripping pipes,
skin that’s oozing sores
or milk pouring
from a cracked jug
and soaking a new carpet.
If you stick an ‘a’ in
it’s an oasis, watering you
in the desert,
but, in bones, it means you have
larger than normal holes
and now I am wondering
what will happen to me.
You see, I have small bones.
Does that mean that, eventually,
my entire body will become
one large leaky hole?
Audrey McIlvain has published many educational articles, seven books for children, a self-help book for the elderly (60+? Get Ready to Rock), and a first collection of poetry (Hold on a Minute). She recently won the category she entered in the national competition, ‘Whispers of War’. In 2014 she began a Masters Degree (online) with Manchester Metropolitan University.