After many years, the poetry has hit the pavement. I’ve been working on a Covid memorial project called Remembering Together, a co-creation with members of Lung Ha Theatre Co and The Maple Group, and users of the space at Wardie Bay, Edinburgh. Getting away from it all but having somewhere to come back to, searching for something whole, feeling like everything is at a distance, trying to put two and two together, or make sense of it all, and feeling like grief isn’t so much an event as a daily, woven, way-forward…..the memorial has culminated in an art trail at Wardie Bay – ten artworks intended to invite you into your present moment…including this snippet of poetry, (“quietly foraging for something whole….”) in the pavement at the entrance to Wardie beach. The poem is split apart, read both ways, with 2metres between each line…The present moment became an antidote to loss in the work we were doing to share stories, memories, lockdown days….