She’s looking back at key points in her career. One stands out. She recalls it stage by stage. Jots it down in the third person present.

“Puts her head round the door. Gives them the thumbs up. It’s there in their eyes. Relief and excitement. Soon they will get their very first glimpse. There’s a sense of tension .”

new grandchild
hurdles towards the horizon
each Hokusai wave

“Good to observe them coming and going especially the older ones, some of them nervous.”

wrinkled smile
a dream of Einstein’s theory
coming back

“It’s been three months now. Must have seemed years. How lovely to see the matriarch back for that final appointment, proud and of use. Can almost hear her hum ‘twinkle twinkle’ “

holding the baby
in jars of frozen white liquid
the milky way glints

Diana Webb