LOST IN A MALL

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 by Dick Jones

A man alone on an uncomfortable chair outside Jamaica Blue in the Lion’s Yard shopping mall in Cambridge. Kids & Emma roaming the denser regions of the retail jungle, hunting & gathering while I muse. Current topic: do they make these chairs uncomfortable so as to discourage customers from lingering over their Wallingford Estate Jamaica Blue Coffees? Subsequent topic: through my reading glasses the passing crowds look like polychromatic ghosts, their colours smudged against blurred light. Through the haze I hear three languages in swift succession – Mandarin, Arabic & Spanish. Now my deliverance comes – the girls have benefitted the Accessorise shareholders to the tune of several quid and we’re off…

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About Dick Jones

I'm a post-retirement Drama teacher, currently working part-time. I have a grown-up son and daughter, three grandchildren and three young children from my second marriage. I write - principally poetry but prose too, both fitfully published. My poetry collection Ancient Lights is published by Phoenicia Publishing (www.phoeniciapublishing.com) and my translation of Blaise Cendrars' 'Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France' (illustrated by my friend, the artist, writer and long-time blogger Natalie d'Arbeloff) is published by Old Stile Press (www.oldstilepress.com). I play bass guitar & bouzouki in the song-based acoustic/electric trio Moorby Jones, playing entirely original material. https://www.facebook.com/moorbyjones?ref=aymt_homepage_panel http://www.moorbyjones.net/) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MOORBY+JONES spotify:artist:07MDD5MK9MnRGSEZwbsas9 I have a dormant blog with posts going back to 2004 at Dick Jones' Patteran Pages - http://patteran.typepad.com - and I'm a radio ham. My callsign is G0EUV
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