Inspired? Get Writing: Sabine, 2000 by Josie Rogers, from Lochgilphead High School
This poem was runner-up in category C – 15-18 years. The inspiration was Sabine by alison watt
Oh, cover me -
she sighs as she rolls over
all skin
milky, hot, bed-scented
She turns and tugs and settles
like an oak stirring in a gale
The sheet billows, sinking, swaddling
– a swell of second skin
With caution it lands
and puckers
Like a cleft of warm flesh
or the fold of a page of a book
or the withering of a leaf
Or the crease of the skin of her arm
when we’re older.