not quite the million dollar win
no, my socks’re not knocked off
no hurling hats or punching the air
just an average day on this small planet
gently beginning with chai
and hot-buttered quietness and
O my reward has greenly emerged
out of its dark place and though the real
prize is still some weeks hence, here
is this tray, this miracle of germination
these buy propecia online india green seedlings, these lobjoit’s
cos, this their emergence and all
has become sunlight and linnet song
John Kitchen is a retired primary headteacher based in Leicester, UK. He writes plays and poems. The latter have been published in HCE, IS &T, London Grip and others. He has been read on BBC Radio 3 by Imogen Stubbs.