26 Children's Winters

This week I got the chance to visit my objects and sestude* (titled "Goodnight") in the 26 Children's Winters exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh -

Winter - Keeping Warm - Bedtime

Objects:  Copper Warming Pan 1900s, Teddy Bear Pyjama Case 1970s, Hand Knitted Wool Hot Water Bottle Cover 1970s

     Goodnight

and then

quick!

you run

     from the comfort of hug and hearth

     across chilly bedroom floors

you leap

and snuggle

     a fledgling

     in a downy nest

warmed by

     coppers full of embers

     the colour of firelight

     the scent of heat on sheets

     hot water bottles

     rubber-scalded

     slurping inside their covers

     a plush bear clutched tight

     one eye watching out

     for pyjama thieves

(And we've just got news that there will be funding for a booklet - I'll let you know more about that later!)

* a sestude is a 62 word response