Poetry is always a stretch for me but, inspired by a great workshop by Ed Wright from The Creative Word Shop, this emerged!
‘When I’m not writing, I’m knitting’
My mind is tangled yarn.
I rip my knitting off its needles.
Wool trails from the bin onto the floor,
where lie the fragments of paper from unfinished drafts,
where the vacuum cleaner can no longer go.
If I leave,
If I close the door,
Will my mind unravel?
(Alison Ferguson, 11 June 2022)
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Author: Alison Ferguson
Back in the 1970s, Alison Ferguson completed one of the first Bachelor of Arts degrees in Professional Writing and then went on to qualify as a speech pathologist, working as a clinician and academic for over thirty years. As well as writing research-based book chapters and papers for international refereed journals, Alison authored two scholarly books (published by Plural Publishing, and Palgrave Macmillan). Now retired, Alison is pursuing her long-standing fascination with story writing in both non-fiction and fiction.
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