Haiku
Solstice
Flakes through sodium, Rakhmaninov on headphones, Holding the front page. In my teens, as an aspiring musician with a morning paper round, this time of year meant cold, dark mornings under the glare of old-school sodium lights (whatever happened to them?). Rakhmaninov's Vocalise always takes me back to those days, trudging across a snowy park with a bag full of newspapers. In the end, though, the papers had a greater influence on my career than the music: 30+ years on, I'm still working as a journalist!
By Andy Potts10 months ago in Poets
