I’d like to tell you…
but you don’t exist yet.
So far there’s only me
mixed together with a few caraway seeds
on the kitchen table
and you will be
a splodge of spilled coffee
taking your shape from my clumsy gesture
I’d like to tell you…
that I’m looking forward to that messy breakfast.
Renata Connors is a poet and songwriter based in Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear. Her poems were published in an online poetry magazine The Fat Damsel and Kind of a Hurricane press journal Napalm and Novocaine. She has performed her poetry and songs at many different venues around the North East.