Autumn term New shoes Pencil cases Scratchy shirts with names on them Who’s my teacher? Will my friends still like me? What is that at the bottom of the bag, from before A lifetime ago Different teacher: different world A world when it ran like a machine A bad-tempered machine Homework, gym kit, lunches, […]
Muffled – 100 words
Muffled Wrapped in activity. Silenced by lists. Unbalanced by notifications. Paralysed by piles that teeter – underpinned by hurry. Tormented by ticking time. Bewildered and frowning… how can it possibly now? Already. Unready. Too late. What was progress? Pursued by the howling of regret. Scrabbling, crabbily for a foot hold in the slippery rock, tugged […]
