The tooth
His Whole Tooth I felt the fiver rustle between thumb and forefinger As I padded into your bedroom Preparing to make the switch A note would be easy to slide across the sheet Want a smooth operation if this to be my last tooth-based transaction I could picture the paper under the pillow You always were a good sleeper Mum is out with the girls So I’m standing in for the stand in tooth fairy Swaying in the shadows The bathroom light is on of course I wait to see if you are going to stir Then I slide my hand underneath Below the soft rock I crawled from under Your head rests on a rock for a pillow As you dive into you dreams Deep inside an octopuses garden You are sleeping like a wreck On bottom bunk submerged in inky darkness. But I can’t find the tooth My hand scuttles like a skittish crustacean Fleeing a divers torch light Then there it is glinting The jewel stashed in a hole in the reef I slide the note along the silk...