NEW BORNS

New Borns

‘Who would bring a child into this world?’

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Alan,

For apples and arbutus, for apemen and alphabets,

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Barbara,

For boats, bats, bells, barnacles.

Beermugs and beauty.

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would said, Catherine,

For camels and cobras, cold and curmudgeons

I would enter the world

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said David,

For doughnuts and dreadlocks, damsons and dogs,

Desks and deliciousness

I would enter the world

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said, Ellen,

For ears and elephants, eggs, earth and envelopes

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Fingal.

For fruit, for featherbeds, fossils and frankincense,

Freedom and formaldehyde

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Geraldine,

For gooseberries, geckos, goldfinches, gorgonzola

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Helen,

For hoarfrost and hazelnut, hairdos and hedgehogs,

Hotdogs and honeycombs

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Ian

For inkblots and India, ice-cream and igloos

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Jennifer

For jellybeans, January, jumbucks and jeopardy,

Joysticks and Jericho

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Kieran

For Kettering, kilowatts, kecks and Kilimanjaro

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Lukas,

For leopards, lollipops. limericks, linseed,

Letters and longing

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Marlie

For mysteries, margarine, mothers and mistletoe

I would enter the world

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Natalie,

For nuggets and nougat, for night and for necklaces,

Nostrils and nostrums

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Ossie

For oranges, oblongs, offside and orang-utans

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Pamela

For pepper-pots, popinjays, pickle and palaces,

Penguins and porridge

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Quinn,

For quadrilaterals, quails and quaint quackery

I would enter the worlds.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Richard

For rodents and rattlesnakes, roses and robots,

Reindeer and relevance

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Stephanie

For Saturdays, sausages, seagulls, serendipity,

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Tom,

For tenterhooks, tambourines, tablespoons, tangerines,

Toast and topography

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Ursula,

For umbrellas and undergrounds, urns and Uruguay

I would enter the world

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Vivienne,

For verdicts, variety, velvet and viscousness

violets and vortices

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said William

For woods, winds, waves, woodchucks

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would said, Xavier

For xylophones, xylographs, xiphoids and Ximenes

x-rays and xenocrysts

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Yolanda

For yearlings and yesterday, yarrow and you

I would enter the world.

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Zoe,

For zeniths and zithers, zeal and zoology,

Zebras and zips

I would enter the world

What child with foreknowledge would enter the world?

I would, said Al,

Bonnie, Cal, Dot, Ed, Fee, Gareth, Hattie, Imogen

Joe, Kit, Lol, Mo, Ned, Orville, Pip, Queenie

Rosemarie, Sid, Tess, Uli, Vi, Wendy,

Xi, Yann and Zero.