All posts tagged: Relationship

The cartographers’ tricks

December 16, 2020
by petra hilgers
Lockdown / Poetry

Because when they gridlocked us  into precisely here and where  degrees distances destinations  they didn’t only steal their dreams  their songs souls they trapped  all of us like grasshoppers in a Kilner jar  confined our faith to the corners of our eyes  within earshot no need for walls armed-to-their-teeth border police  they just took hold of the curriculum  printing presses for long enough  to circulate their currency of time  so everything was forgotten quickly  Just out here […]

Our last laugh

June 13, 2020
by petra hilgers
Poetry

I spent two weeks getting frustrated about all I could see myself unable to do chasing illusions in my post-furlough world that has become the worst of both the pace of day a race against stop while still queueing outside shops like a traffic light blinking furiously with all three lights on      When I stopped I spent six hours in the car with Adrian to collect seats for his 1979 Clubman Estate in […]

When we left the city

May 19, 2019
by petra hilgers
Home / Todmorden / Yorkshire

When we left the city Some say it’s a bird You want to cup it softly with both hands beware its heart beating like a battlefield Mine is a kite     soaring fiercely too fast he said    like everything There’s a different spirit here fluffing into our bedroom window like shadows of lace lingering in the wind