The Poems of David Garlick
Part One Our father named us, The Animals! Come here animals, he would call. Nancy, the eldest was Rabbit. I was Rat! Rats have always fascinated me. I would have loved to have a white one but there was some resistance to this, so I had to make do with another boy’s […]
I look at our baby and in that moment – I understand not only how much my parents love me but that once again, life has given me a new kind of love to share. Books spill words of mother’s love, rightly so, for mothers are our genesis. They bear and care for us, […]
Burdened with groceries we crossed the road. Look right, look right, the traffic comes from there. And then a waif, in tears. “Come quick, come quick,” he said. “Me mum ‘as ‘ad a fit. She’s a laying over there.” We ran, there she was, down on the ground, shaking, out for the count, an […]
A tooth was loose within my head. If prodded or pulled, some times it bled. It’ll make good bait, when I go to bed. For I want to snare the Tooth Fairy. Why the Tooth Fairy? I hear you say. She leaves us a coin, for the tooth to pay. And it would be […]