Dear Will and Rachel (Congrats!)

Poem for Oscar

Dear Will and Rachel

Huge congratulations! i have no words (except the 197 below) and i can’t wait to have a cuddle with Oscar at Christmas eeep xxx

Poem 
for Oscar



i’ve been looking for a perfect disaster, a christmas tree
the greasy drum of olive oil had teeth that took root in my sleep

but you arrive like a ceasefire in cyprus with raspberry 
around your mouth and a ball in your hand. you can always 
swing by when i’m a fossil, cooking and writing chamber music
i will show you how to clutch a pint with two hands 
how to flip it by the earth’s axis, tap it twice with a spade
a sea of throats and bones in the wet sand while you shout 
your family motto: ‘beethoven never made the fortune 500
but he had a fifth!’ an anecdote i save for years later

the urinal cake we grew under glass: remember scabies?
geese? remember the a380? though you cringe
dial up tones to think of a cherry with a wing i load
the white flag as a rifle for your first go on a balance bike
lopsided in its smoke-laden flight (dun dun dun dun)

the internet was this grand ballroom loaded with tricks 
where i embarrass you with a 41-gun salute: snow on holden 
jesus’ face in your little tupperware: more raspberries?

…Baby Oscars

…Chili Red Oscars

Will and Oscar