Needy as a newborn, you are insatiable. I set my alarm for two-hourly feeds, am catapulted awake by your clamouring. We share a bed. It’s the only solution. You are pacified by sucking on my little finger between feeds. I sing lullabies on a loop. Rock a Bye Baby is an earworm worse than tinnitus. […]
Jayne Stanton
Jayne Stanton’s poems have appeared in numerous print and online magazines and anthologies. She has written commissions for a county museum, University of Leicester’s Centre for New Writing, poems for International Women’s Day, and a city residency. A pamphlet, Beyond the Tune, was published by Soundswrite Press (2014).