Fat Woman on a Trampoline
She waits until the children leave.
They haven’t noticed her
leaning over the stone wall
of the formal garden.
She saunters down the path
under an arch, past broken flower pots
and onto the rough grass
of the venture playground.
A walking holiday.
She sketches too. This B & B,
a family home to late Victorians.
broods above a wooded gorge.
Yesterday her heavy legs
hauled her, panting, up the ridge,
stiff boots guarding against rock
and contact with the springy turf.
She’ll just remove her shoes
and lie flat on this trampoline
large as the double bed
she sleeps alone in.
Above her a blue sky, white clouds,
sheep on the far green slope.
No one around. She stands
knees bent. Sways. Jumps.
Soars, arms outstretched
light, light, light
on taut blue plastic.
Light. Light. Light.
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