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.
Martin Potter is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December 2017. Read more at 
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