My mind is a bag of marbles II 

My mind is a bag of marbles. Thrown, rolled.
Dropped in haste and rolling off everywhere

I said to myself in my distress
“in”
“Gather together”,
"focus, centre in"

I point to the place below my rib cage
And visualise the marbles rolling

As a film played backwards the marbles curve
And plop into the place of the pointing

I breathe and take a moment. It’s going
The marbles are all back
and all is well with me.

(photo, taken by F.Norton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Not Vital Jan 2017)




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