Giving Skin
Watch for a moment
how his little feet
brush the daisies
polite as Spring rain,
how dandelion fluff
sticks to his
raspberry kiss,
how milk trickles
from a sleepy corner of his mouth,
how I give like the stretch
of a perineum, once stitched.
Isabelle de Grave is a writer living in East Sussex. She has non-fiction and journalistic essays published by IPS News and Pioneers Post. Her poems explore themes of love, family, nature and the intersection of the domestic and the wild. She writes in between looking after two little boys, muddy walks and cups of tea.
