once I was no bigger
than a penny
forged resentful
but I’ve come to be
appreciative,
of just how easily
I might have been another
down the well
a thing to wish on.
when I turned eighteen
I got a cork
with twenty pence
lodged in,
then on my twenty-first
a whole pound coin.
remember son, she said,
they don’t come
any bigger
is putting coins in corks a British thing,
or do people do this everywhere?
