Our parents' bedroom
Mum and Dad
double bed
Mummy on the right
Daddy on the left
a mat each side they made
from Matisse leaf shapes
cupboards on Mummy’s side
chest of drawers on Daddy’s
two identical bedside tables
honeymoon visit to Heal’s
Mummy’s dressing table
angled between two windows
three moveable mirrors
careful put them back as they were
the other chest of drawers
full of Mum’s things underwear
as you come in
beside the door
the little armchair
beside the upstairs phone
Daddy’s bookshelves
holiday slides in boxes
and the big trunk on short legs
contains Daddy’s painting things
savour turpentine and linseed oil
latch the snap back catches
behind the bed
their homemade headboard
beneath the carpet
original floor boards