Fall

As it's National Poetry Day today I thought I'd post Sophie's contribution from chapter twenty of my novel, Writing Therapy. In the course of preparing her for this final form of therapy, student nurse Will Caxton encourages the teenager to try all sorts of writing exercises, one of which leads to the following...

Fall
Some girls at school seem not to care who seesTheir bodies wet and naked from the shower. The others hide behind a towel, like me, And fret about it all for hours and hours. ...