This poem is itself an interactive response. Jacqui liked the reference to ‘simple joy’ in my poem Migration Counterpoint and decided that concept would be the subject matter of the interactive installation she was to display in The Undercroft in Norwich, for the 2015 Norwich Fringe Festival. When she told me that I wrote and sent her this poem, which she then included in her work.
The image, taken by my son of his son, illustrates perfectly the last line.
Events we cannot touch enrich our lives:
The smell of Philadelphus after rain
Curlews’ cry in the estuary’s mouth
a wisp of wood smoke after snowfall
rippled light on wind-blown water
laughter within a lover’s eyes
and a child’s sense of wonder.
