The poet as a child, standing outdoors on a wooden platform next to a galvanised iron rainwater tank, wearing a red dressing gown

Tanking

Falling down
in hand-me-downs
(Raggedy Ann)
bloodied my head
on a metal drum
its (rusty? jagged?) edge.

Oh that rich smell,
those bright blotches!

I do so love a disaster.


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