Tenderness - Brendan Maclean

Raining in Soho;

Greened out kid an ambulance

Unsuspecting kindness

The help I needed was there

Tenderness

Bathing our daughter;

Warm, damp and

Fragile

And we’re so quiet…

Not yet from fighting, o!

Tenderness

Hunched over an atlas;

I searched for you Europe

And never found you