Everything is reduced to ashes
News reporters
Item, anchor reports that the Isle of Bute in the firth of Clyde is completely cut off due to high winds. She then goes on to say that however one of our reporters has managed to get there. HOW THROUGH A PORTAL A WORMHOLE,HOW,HOW PLEASE TELL. Either its cut off or not.
Where next?
Don’t know just can’t seem to make this work.
Words and images
How do you combine the two, without creating one big mess?
The swimmers
Imaging that summer
Imaging those lives
The incident on the beach
What if they had been swept away?
What would have been?
What would have been if they weren’t?
What was and what remains
Bitterness, pain
Grief of lives denied
Lives different from desires
Wants unanswered
That sunny, windy day,
A different headstone
Lives, altered, changed
What if they had been swept away?
What would be?
Would words fill an empty space?
(Clare)
27/8/2010
