I hadn’t seen Miranda since school. We sat together, walked home together, and wrote poetry in her bedroom, which she didn’t have to share with siblings. I spotted her on the pavement, shivering cross-legged on a folded-up cardboard box. Matted hair poked out of a beanie. She wore a tatty jumper; there was no coat […]
Tag: Homelessness
A Room of One’s Own
surplus to requirementsjust over two point fourno room in the cramped flatand nowhere else to godreams to engenderI had to keep them safe, so… I found a box and put a room inside sofa surfing’s difficultbeing a burden’s worseit’s easy to lose friendseven easier to lose trustlife on the street’s dangerouspavements are cold and hardin […]