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...cup
of tea, Mummy's in the kitchen at the end of the passage,
having a cup of tea. I'm walking on the ceiling in the
hallway it's the same as our house. Along the ceiling
I walk into the hallway and into the lounge room and into
the bedrooms along the front hallway then turn into the
passage to the kitchen turn the corner, oops, can't
see there. Walking on this ceiling makes their house the
same as ours, upside down. Lying on the carpet, yellow
swirls below, legs in the air, waiting for the cup of
tea to finish. I want to go home now Mummy I want
to go I have to check our house to make sure it is the
same as this. I want to lie on our polished lino and slide
along on my back and look, I will look at the ceiling
and see it is the same as theirs but upside down, just
like this I walk along the ceiling back along the passage
turn into the hallway past the bedroom smells; nylon and
chiffon and frills pretty smells, past the lounge room
to the front door I want to go home now...
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...Sharon
has a red velvet dress, velvet, dark red white lace, it
is new, beautiful, she is wearing it today to the library,
all the way to the library at the shops. I am going with
Sharon walking beside her watching the red dress, I want
one of those, beautiful. Sharon is beautiful in the dress,
she is a big kid. I hold her hand, she knows what to do
about roads and what to say to the ladies at the library,
she knows how to get the books, she holds a purse, with
the tickets in it, pale blue cardboard there will be a
show, puppets at the library, we go in, sit on the floor.
Kids are there with their mummies, we are together. I
sit next to Sharon, the red dress is beautiful. She smoothes
it carefully over her knees, I want to reach out and touch
it but now the lady takes our tickets I think I see Sharon
has some money in the purse. Thruppence for lollies later,
so hard to decide, we sit cross legs on the floor, the
library sun comes into the smell of the books, plastic
covers, big books, bright pictures exciting books on shelves,
lots and lots, which one today? Sharon can get the books
then the lady does the writing on the orange cards they
have our name on them and they know we have the book now
we can take it home. We walk home together. I hold my
library book close and with my other hand I hold Sharon's
hand as we cross the road look left look right look left
again, like we learnt in school. Sharon has shiny leather
shoes, and white socks, new socks, with lace frills, beautiful...
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