Friday, July 23, 2010

Bored now mum, voice of experience and food writing.

1. Mums-to-be lie in deep relaxation. The whole class is still and silent as logs. Apart from Baby Badger who is tickling me from the inside and trying to make me laugh.

2. Today there is time to sit on the sofa with my mother and look over a baby catalogue.

3. After supper, Katie brings out a pile of vegetarian cookbooks for me to look over. I wallow in accounts of vegan sticky toffee pudding, and silken tofu.

Hot water bottle, Word Up and night sky.

1. The sighing glug of a hot water bottle filling, and the soft belch of air making room. 2. Spoken word night. The energy shifts from poet ...