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Incandescent Interiors, Initiation II
First published as part of 26 Places. Address: IKEA Reading, Reopening, 20 October 2016. Music: Holger Schueler.
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
Broke from the funeral, I’m back at the till
My eye catches you
in the crowd: you’re beaming and talking to
someone — I think I’m going crazy, and still —
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
I feel hot like the sun at the Costa de la Luz,
The jugglers throw skittles and catch them with skill,
My eye catches you
You were dead when I arrived at 2
I called your mother that night from the hospital
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
Nothing in the warehouse hydraulics review
“All safe, human error.” If we’d stayed in Seville!
My eye catches you
Smiling, having fun, the shoppers pass through
with their instant interiors: I never will.
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
My eye catches you
Another 2017 project with the writers’ group 26 Characters was focused on places and spaces.
The idea was to write…
about somewhere everyday, overlooked or unusual, and to let the writer find their own space.
And, in the best tradition of 26, our writers were given a randomly selected letter of the alphabet as a starting point. They chose a place that began with that letter and wrote about it. Somewhere that held a special interest for them, somewhere, perhaps, they loved or hated. The more specific the better.
We also teamed up with artists, musicians, designers and photographers to create additional media to go with the piece.
I decided to write about IKEA Reading, which had had to be closed just after it first opened — because a terrible accident had taken place. Holger Schueler created a haunting piece of music to go with my villanelle.
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