Assessment Task 3: Project Milestone 2 : SUBMISSION OF COLLABORATIVE EXERCISE

Creative Piece: Written after my interview with a nomadic traveller I met while on semester break.

The Finding

Breathing

no balance can hold me

roads urge me away from

those that hold me here

where are they going to go?

I leave a made bed.



Moving

fascinating little towns

each has a different story

I see all I can. Dirt roads

home calling, twisting me

familiar with its urge





Memory

my mother was a traveller too

her unkempt hair and cigarettes

unwound windows always

station wagon cruising

now I’m her age



Stasis

this bike I saw once by the road

It was rusted stiff. Never moving.

when we die we rust in place

don’t let me rust somewhere

That isnt the place I want to be



Catch

I find some roads lead

to these people. Those people

they hold you and keep you

and I don’t want to be kept

fly with me to petrol stations



Till

maybe this will be forever

I haven’t stopped yet

I’m never happy with the now

need, no I must have

a place where rust is welcomed