the fair appeared in town each May
I could see it from the kitchen window as I
scrubbed the plates which you had used throughout the day and could not
would not wash yourself because you are
too busy and remarkable and I am neither or
I am the former but without your validation it is not so
so I look out to the Ferris Wheel and wonder how they construct
such a thing overnight or overday and dream of it becoming loose and
rolling out from the fairground and
reaching our house so I can step from the window
and run
just a woman running on top of a barrel but
it stays where it was built upon solid foundations of steel
which do not bend or snap to my request and
it takes me half an hour to do the dishes because I watch the people
who are happy
I could see it from the kitchen window as I
scrubbed the plates which you had used throughout the day and could not
would not wash yourself because you are
too busy and remarkable and I am neither or
I am the former but without your validation it is not so
so I look out to the Ferris Wheel and wonder how they construct
such a thing overnight or overday and dream of it becoming loose and
rolling out from the fairground and
reaching our house so I can step from the window
and run
just a woman running on top of a barrel but
it stays where it was built upon solid foundations of steel
which do not bend or snap to my request and
it takes me half an hour to do the dishes because I watch the people
who are happy
Bethan lives an island life in Orkney. She tries to write when her young children decide to sleep, which is rarely. She is yet to be published.