Christine's pamphlet, Pink Socks and Walking Boots, will be published in May 2010.
Christine Ford is an English Teacher who lives and works in East Lothian. She has featured
regularly in
Poetry Scotland's online webzine - the Open Mouse.
Sample Poem
Time Passing
I feel the cold wind slap my face
more keenly now since Mum's life
is almost skelped to death:
treading steps in careful precision
I stop her slipping from chair
she is slopped in, without wind
biting, air breathing life.
I moment fixtures: swimming,
kicking, breathing gulps;
striding meanderly round wood walk.
Events minute time she is lost in
and I am keen to exaggerate detail
as if she is hunkered on my shoulders
seeing beyond me, above trees
and looking, musing below
where she has lived sometime,
now sleeping in memories
like a snake shedding skin.
Copyright © Christine Ford 2010