Chronicler, Swindon’s community poet and maypole maestro Tony Hillier was inspired to write after poet and dancer Tishani Doshi’s Swindon Festival of Literature readings.
Continue readingYou search for the other glove
You search for cross-continent roots
Wales played India at cricket
Your mother the bowled-over maiden
The Maidan I know in Kolkata
its lung like Hyde Park you know
Indian lungs sleep in trees these days
pawning their time to save lives
Your poetry is properer than mine
yet each of us dances with the word
to get unheard voices heard
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