Toy Boat (a poem) - [2016]

Toy Boat

A toy boat drifted down the stream –

an empty sailing ship.

It crashed upon the river’s edge

and bobbed its head a dip.

Its sails were thumb-stained fabric,

and the wood was MDF,

and it tilted proudly to the sky,

emblazoned ‘Mary Beth’.

I pulled it from the riverbank;

it dripped its waters free;

then I set it down again

so it could carry on to sea.