writer. maker.
She won’t sit still next to me on the sofa,
she jumps all over it as everyone else lazes in that post tea-time lull.
She has started to tell me her dreams.
‘There’s a blue train’, she says,
‘it’s gone off the rails, it’ going on the grass.’
Freedom, I think, for her,
Her life a train that runs
wherever it pleases.
Elisabeth Pike is a writer and designer. Voice at the Window, a collection of 100 gratitude poems written during lockdown is out now. Circles: Nurture and Grow your Creative Gift was released in April 2019. Her prints and books are available at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleBirdEditions. She lives in Shropshire with her husband and four children. View more posts
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