Your beautiful eye,
It wanders.
“One eye looking at you,
One looking for you”
Grandad always said,
When mine did the same thing.
When the patch goes on,
We will buy you a pirate hat.
We will tickle your chin
As you pick out glasses
With your sister's help.
I will hold your hand
As the world pops into focus.
I will watch your face
As you take it in.
Ellen Uttley is a working class writer, poet and mother of two from the North of England. She loves to work with weird subjects and themes and is currently writing a post-apocalyptic poetry chapbook. Her prose is featured in the anthology ‘Surfing the Twilight’, and her poetry has appeared in Lucky Pierre Zine, Serotoning Poetry and Streetcake Magazine.