Loaded with blankets, sweets, coffee,
Medicine and something hotter.
Flight to Poland crack of dawn
Wait eat shiver wait.
Slow train to Kiev
City of deep freeze.
Airport, shops, streets empty
Hug and kiss, hug and kiss.
Mummy Home at last
Collapse in bed.
Sky illuminated, distant bangs:
Fitful sleep
Tomorrow January 8
To church
Worship the Incarnate.