Listen At … Wellington from 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLi9DxEHcgQ&ab_channel=ListenAt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLi9DxEHcgQ&ab_channel=ListenAt
I couldn’t move, but I could draw.
I had a green pen, almost all the ink was gone. It was scraping along the little book I had set aside to put the notes of what it was to be mummy for the first time.
The book was small.
I forgot that my eyesight is not the best.
Foresight not the best.
You lay there feeding.
I couldn’t move, but I could draw.
I could try to draw what it was to be mummy for the first time.
With green scratchy ink running out on my lovely hand-made, not made for drawing in, too small book.
It is the most precious drawing I own, and sits on my desk every day.
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