Longlisted for the Write about Walking A/way competition 2023
Someone has replaced the vape and takeaway debris that loitered here when I last walked this way with a trail of jasmine flowers, skyfall lucidae on sun-bleached asphalt.
At the canal, lovers on the towpath weave through willow fronds sure as a cleat hitch.
A woman with proper running shoesshares a metre with her lurcher— their loose-ankle skip wisps above the path like hovercraft.
That one couple waiting at the school gate,a generation older than the rest, the way he tucks her hair, bends to kiss, like she has nectar only he can siphon.
And a girl, 6 or 7, calls outover some back garden wall, Hello, Hello, You hear me?.... to all of us or none.
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APA style reference
de Paor, E. (2023).
Serenade.
walk · listen · create.
https://walklistencreate.org/2023/09/01/serenade/