Writing Competition’s Third Prize: Sharing A Bed

By Rosie Montague

Sharing a bed

In his bed I find a tennis ball; fountain pen (green); strands of my hair

Apologies; singing; a crisis over breakfast

Mornings of sleep; undone stress

Around it, a sock; some water; a dress

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