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1st
Prize winner, Carillon Magazine competition, 2007
and
published
in Carillon, issue 17, Mar/Apr 2007, ISSN
1474-7340
Five Changes
If I tried to give
you up, it would be like
buying
a train ticket from Aberystwyth
to
Hastings, on a Sunday or a Bank Holiday —
a
reduced service, works on the line…
essential
maintenance;
and
I’d expected five changes, steeled myself for
Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, Reading, Gatwick
and
Brighton,
had
psyched myself to tick them off, one by one,
but
found cancellations,
my
progress halted, my plans thwarted,
my
route re-arranged on a chalked easel
with
quirky spellings…inaudible apologies…
and
instead of three-down-two-to-go,
time
for a coffee, a quick last sidinged pass
at
crossword or sudoku,
I’d
find I was just travelling — locomoting
slowly —
in
a large reticulated arc
back
to
you.
Simone Mansell Broome
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