Will you help me? My son says.
Always, I reply, as I always do.
He looks up from his Lego.
What if one day you say no?
(To play what ifs is his favourite).
I laugh. That’ll never happen.
He pulls a roof tile off a brick.
But do some mamas not help?
My mind drills through years
to rain, ocean, storm.
Outside, a child wails.
Oh, that sound, I say.
My son frowns. What sound?
I can’t hear anything.
Kerry is the founder of Write like a Grrrl. Her writing has been featured in various publications including Steer, The Manchester Review, the Kenyon Review and Spilling Ink. Kerry has recently been published in Queerlings and has poems forthcoming from Off Menu Press. Her play Trust was recently performed at the Gulbenkian Theatre. Find Kerry on Twitter @writelikeagrrrl and at www.writelikeagrrrl.com.
Spangle McQueen is a happy grandma and hopeful poet living in Sheffield.
Byron Beynon lives in Swansea, Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including London Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, San Pedro River Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Yellow Nib and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). Collections include Human Shores (Lapwing Publications) and The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).
Katie Lewington is a UK-based writer and has been drafting, editing and rewriting her bio since she started submitting to literary magazines and journals two years ago. It isn’t as if she doesn’t know who she is, she just isn’t sure what is relevant. Her creative writing can be read at 
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