Your new home

Poem by Alison Dunne

‘This above all is precious and remarkable
How we put ourselves in one another’s care
How in spite of everything we trust each other”
- John Wain

I don’t know anything except
this morning one man handed another
a bag of tea and biscuits
that a woman is giving a sofa
and I will bring out of my loft
the ends and slats of a bed.

To prosper is to accept the good
that comes to you.

On the day you’re looking at the flat
we see on Googlemaps the street
the little roofs and yards
This is the beginning and the end of something.

My lover tells me
this city is beautiful
as we drink coffee in the sun.
He shows me, even the paper tubes of sugar are beautiful.
It’s how you look at things, he says.

To prosper is to accept the good
that comes to you.

In my pocket is a promise.
I will meet whoever comes
with my hands open.

Alison Dunne(The Book Doctor)  is a Literature Development Officer based at The Central Lending Library, Leicester.