Mine looked odd,

completely out of place.

 

Being kind you might have said unique,

the teacher called it a one off

and said it was in the nature

of a piece of work that was mine,

that it resembled me

not exceptional or exclusive

but something quite…

rare, unusual…go on I thought

daring the words out loud,

call me peculiar, after all my

Battenberg Angel was certainly that

in amongst the dazzling white fairies

constructed by the other members

of my class just before Christmas 1981.