You made me a beautiful ring

Out of pipe cleaners

On the outward journey down

Blue green Blue green Blue green

In a gift shop at the railway station

I purchased three plastic animals for you

A horse a cow and a suckling pig

You chose numbers one and two

And I retained the third creature

The following day we visited a market town

And whilst there I engaged three pebbles

All richly painted in feral colours

I gave you the mouse fish

Which you gladly accepted

The others now reside in my study

Where poems such as this are written

And distributed around the world