‘Escape’ by Sharon Phillips After Self Portrait at a Window, c.1900, by Käthe Kollwitz And one of these fine spring dayswhen the light’s angle showswhere overwintered dirt is lurking, I’ll stand at the window, one handon the curtain — I might be tuggingit straight, perhaps, or brushing off a dead fly — and watch the squarebelow, its fountain, gravel pathsand nursemaids with shiny prams, gaunt women and rickety childrenqueueing outside its iron railingsfor the doctor’s pauper clinic, all of it the same as any other dayand I’ll see myself walking away. Meet the Poet Sharon Phillips stopped writing poetry in 1976 and started again forty years later, after retiring from her career in education. Her poems have been published online and in print. Originally from Bristol, Sharon now lives in Otley, West Yorkshire. 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