It's Still Life

Navidad en Bogotá

We bought a cheap suitcase at Poundland.
It’s a cavernous monster. Burgundy colour,
which I suspect will bleed like beetroot
all over everything at the first hint of rain,

but no worries because we and it
are heading to Bogotá next month,
and although it can tip down rain there,
it’s an La Niña year so we can safely

leave our life jackets and umbrellas
at home. And the suitcase: we’re filling it
with baby clothes and pram accessories
and nappies and little this-and-that things

because, yes, you might have guessed,
there’s a new baby arriving in the family.

For Day 10 PA prompt: write a going somewhere poem.