Author: Lucie

Hiatus announcement

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Hello all – I’m writing to announce an upcoming hiatus on this blog. I’m about to embark on a creative writing MA, which aside from being extremely exciting for my development as a writer, means that what work I produce over the next year, I cannot publish publicly before the end of my assessments. I’m sure you understand I don’t want to get flagged for plagiarism! I will also be removing a few recent pieces, as they are to be published elsewhere. I will be returning to regular posting when the academic year is complete, in October of 2021.

Until then, I wish you all luck and a good year! Thank you for following me so far, I can’t wait to share my new work with you.

Music: dream/scrapbook

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Hello there! I’m so excited to share this collaboration with you – a poem I wrote last year was turned into a song by my dear friend Jay Richardson. Jay is a wonderful composer and organist who lends every drop of his enthusiasm to every one of his projects. I’m honoured that he chose some of my work as inspiration for his own, and so delighted with how it turned out – check it out!

 

Please head over to Jay’s website to have a listen to some of his other work.

 

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Chishimba – a memory

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here’s a little story about this photo –

it was taken in april 2009, just under ten years ago, when we were still living in zambia. the four of us had just spent a beautiful week on the shores of lake tanganyika and faced a 12-hour drive back to lusaka. i had my nintendo DS lite (in pink, obviously), loaded up with an animal crossing cartridge, so i was all set for the road, but we decided to stop about three hours in to do a little more sight-seeing before stopping in kasama for the night.

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Film: The messes we made are my favourite works of art (Iceland 2018)

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I’m filled with no small degree of joy to share this video today! This is a collaboration with one of my best friends Luke. This might sound familiar to some of you, as well it should, as he used my poem OG9A8757.jpg as the text for this video, which he made of a trip we took to Iceland with our friends in July of 2018. Please head to Luke’s website to check out more of his work, as he’s one of the most talented (and severely underrated) photographers and videographers I know. Enjoy!

 

 

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Goldfish

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Cities are forgetful creatures.
They inhale lovers and exhale street corners
On which we exchange first kisses or phone numbers.
Seconds after leaving, the tarmac will lose the heat of our footfalls,
The camera pans left – the stonework sighs, witnesses, does not remember come morning.

I left for a year and returned only last week;
Under my belt I have tucked months of memory and new lessons.
The city knows my gait and I fall back into step with her
She does not ask where I’ve been, and does not care to know,
But tugs at the new bells swinging at my waist and tries to reabsorb me.
We’re much the same, you see –
Outwardly unchanged, inwardly transformed, both ill-equipped to discover quite how the other has changed on the inside.

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It’s the craziest thing
I woke up this morning and all I could think of
Was your smiles lined up like wheels of cheese
Eyes like river stones in clear sunshine
And hands pulling me up to run with you.

The spray of the waterfall tastes like liquid laughter
It runs down my back and settles at the base of my spine
And giggles through me for the rest of the day.

Storms come galloping towards us
And we feed them apples.

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