Red
3
Red ‘3’ birthday balloon
rising and running fast
into the bright brittle blue
Redfern winter sky, bobbing
and weaving for its life
round the grey Cuisenaire rods
of the housing towers
named for dead white gods –
Cook, Banks, Lawson …
escaping, ascending, trailing a
let-go string, shrinking to a glint
in the rising sun, disappearing
to a possible horizon.
Cuisenaire rods are the great forgotten plaything from the 70s.
ReplyDeleteyeah, from the same era these housing towers were built. Think they were designed as a maths learning tool. I remember their little multi-coloured boxes from Infants
ReplyDeletethey look so handmade if you see them now
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