The Missing by Sian Hughes

Author:Sian Hughes [Hughes, Siân]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-30T09:50:20+00:00

The consultant is pregnant, and needs space by your cot,

to read the clip chart, and say ‘So far so good’. I can sleep

upright on my plastic chair. I can sleep against a wall.

I sleep through you waking. The night nurse walks you

up and down the ward at three o’clock in one of the prams.

She sings to you. She says you like it. A ride in a pram,

up muddy lanes where the cows breathe over gates,

along the river past houseboats, swans and ducks

and back again across deep blue fields and pathways

skating high above the grass, gravestones, hedges,

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