Campagnolo Super Record by Rosalind Easton Inner Spaces by India Hibbs Campagnolo Super Record Even when I asked for your number it felt like swapping details at the scene of an accident. A year after you cleared the glass from the road, paid off the bill, filed away the witness statements, I’m watching from the microclimate of my Mercedes SLK as you dart from a side road on your racer, a fluorescent fish, too quick for the protecting shoal of the rush-hour peloton. Here comes the double-decker, a warship, cleaving the tarmac into ripples, rolling you out of the lane. Your face registers the shock, the heart beat in your throat, and you look the way you looked the night you found out I’d done what I always knew I would do, when your best friend and your sister were paramedics, calling your name as you shook the stars from your eyes and tried to sit upright. But even after the crunching pavement of my final text, the crushed polystyrene of ignoring your voicemails, I’m not sure I can resist the jolt, the lurch, the slide of recognition, that I won’t lean out, wave, call your name – About the Author: ROSALIND EASTON is an English teacher, poet and PhD student based in South East London. She is one of the winners of the 2020 Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition; her winning pamphlet Black Mascara (Waterproof), forthcoming in 2021 with Smith|Doorstop, will be her first published work. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Published by fragmentedvoices A small, independent press based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and Prague, the Czech Republic View all posts by fragmentedvoices