house all to itself

looking after our neighbour’s cat

stamp out rough sleeping

those big shiny toys

always for someone better

next year you wait and see

nose against window

child’s eyes misting of Christmas

Santa Santa please

the one and only

Christmas when your dreams come true

little ones savour it

when the sun came up

i saw which way the world turned

just dawned on me

the cat laid out flat

joining the dark to the fire 

embers of a dream

the cat is watching

the long low morning leaving

tomorrow another

the sun creeps across

in shadows of the leaving

transient bird

a long day of rain 

gales every which and way

the cat sleeps and sleeps