The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Kathy Pimlott

Part of a painting which shows a foot on a tightrope.

Ready to catch light

Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)
The Friday Poem 'The Baby in the Wardrobe' by Kathy Pimlott

The Baby in the Wardrobe

by Kathy Pimlott — Do you remember the story of the baby in the wardrobe, / its desiccated body wrapped in newspaper? How the baby / was decades old but the newspaper was last week’s edition?