Saturday 8 February 2020

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.