Nana's house

Nana's house

Grandad was always up to watch the day-star rise,
his brown bakelite radio upon with the news.
Beside it sat a tiny gnome smoking upon a clay log.
'Eat your crusts, they make your hair curly' he
said. Scared not on I would leave the crusts.
At twenty, after a haircut, half my straight-haired
mother's hair went curly She went abode and
washed it and the other half ringleted too.
I did not want this to happen to me In the
bedroom Nana had the high, iron, narrow bed
and Grandad the depressed wide bed. Nana's bed was