My Old Toy Top


/Like\
|the wind|
\it whirs/
|on|
|and|
|on|
|and|
|on|
/around\
/and around\
/it spins across the floor\
/twisting this way and that, it shoots,\
/humming as it trundles like a colourful wind\
\til slowly it wiggles and wobbles and jiggles/ 
\and tips til with one final sputter,/ 
\one last gasp, then a clunk/
\and falls down/
\where it/
\is/




october 2004
ŠJanet Reid