He likes living in the top floor flat.
He says it makes grown ups down
on the street look smaller than him.
Not many toddlers get to
see the top of a bin lorry or wave
at the local dry cleaner pretending
they are sitting on a cloud. Planes are
not intimidating when you can grab them
out of the sky. Is morning even a morning
without making eye contact
with a family of sparrows standing on
the chimney of a second hand furniture shop?
He says he likes living in the top floor flat
and promises we’ll have a garden
when his daddy is an adult.

Carl Burkitt 2024

Written while listening to ‘Such Great Heights’ by Iron & Wine.