i.m Lindsay Rimer

Those memories
of sun-kissed summer days
chugging along past leafy banks,
fussy moorhens, bored swans
and the occasional stern heron,
make us forget darker truths;

the lonely nighttime towpaths,
the creepy predators
and sometimes, 
a young girl, murdered,
dumped in the water, 
a large stone placed 
to hold her down.

I’m remembering a girl,
barely a teenager,
Hebden Bridge, 1994.
Still talked about,
her killer still not found.

Tonnie Richmond lives in Leeds, loves Orkney and archaeology, and has had many poems published. Her pamphlet, Rear-view Mirror, was published by Yaffle’s Nest in 2023.