She Keeps Wishing

Alice Curtain

Cats and rabbits
would reside in fancy little houses
and be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers
in a world of my own

All the flowers
would have very extra special powers
they would sit and talk to me for hours
when I’m lonely in a world of my own

There’d be new birds
lots of nice and friendly howdy-do birds
everyone would have a dozen blue birds
within that world of my own

I could listen to a bubbling brook
and hear a song that I could understand
I keep wishing it could be that way
because my world would be a wonderland

Kathryn Beaumont