Hello my lovely readers
Tonight's #SeasonalSonnets entry is about being able to do something independently and without pain for the first time in a very, very long while. That thing is getting somewhere by a quicker (and not necessarily accessible) route instead of going further just to avoid setting off spasms. It was pouring with rain when we arrived at uni today, and the ramped entrance to the Library's Postgrad Hub was too far away. So I elected to bump myself up a kerb.
This is something I often have to do out of necessity (thanks society!), and when I was younger I relished it. So much so that, aged ten, I wrote a screenplay about a group of wheelchair users taking over a skate park.
Since my spasms, though, it's been too sore - but today, after eleven years of avoiding such stunts, I can say I can zoom wherever I like again! I'm back to wheelchair parkour...and maybe that means my dreams, where I walk and do actual parkour, aren't as far off the reality of my waking life as they might feel.
Happy Parrott.
Love and spoons
Jx
PS The accompanying drawing is as close to a photographic representation of the euphoria in my brain as I can get right now...
7th December
2017
Tonight’s
verse theme is sticking with the climate
tho’
focussing on rain instead of wind;
as that was
today’s version of “inclement”
which had no
inclination to be kind.
It poured
just as we parked outside the library
(we could
not wait, since we were in a rush).
I used it as
another test to try me,
leapt up a
kerb with just a little push.
There was no
time to trundle to a ramp,
and now I
have the luxury of choice,
because such
climbs no longer make me cramp* –
still new
enough that, each time, I rejoice.
Today I’m
therefore grateful for the shower:
it got me
back to wheelchair parkour**.
*Spasms aren’t
the same as cramps (they aren’t fixed by movement) but the rhyme worked
well...!
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| Copyright Jessi Parrott December 2017 |
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