Miriam Nash is a 23-year-old poet living in London. She is passionate about how creative writing can connect
all kinds of people and co-runs a group for young writers through the literary organisation Spread the Word.
She works as Project Assistant for The Foundry, an international community of young poets led by Jacob
Sam-La Rose. Her work has been published in "The Freedom of Paper and Ink" (an anthology by Salt
Publishing). www.myspace.com/miriamnash
all kinds of people and co-runs a group for young writers through the literary organisation Spread the Word.
She works as Project Assistant for The Foundry, an international community of young poets led by Jacob
Sam-La Rose. Her work has been published in "The Freedom of Paper and Ink" (an anthology by Salt
Publishing). www.myspace.com/miriamnash
We can still dance
While Mum was getting change
we danced a Russian dance in the car park
next to the fat, black tank from World War II.
You stamped your camel coloured uggs
in perfect timing, directing the steps
as you used to, two years old in the living room
where we beat saucepans at the centre of a world
we built from clothes racks and old fruit boxes
your wide voice joining mine in a yelled song.
After all the years, the slammed doors
the times we let nothing in
and hugged our cold knees in the dark, alone
to know we can still dance like this
is enough for me to hold to
linking my arms in yours, following your feet.
While Mum was getting change
we danced a Russian dance in the car park
next to the fat, black tank from World War II.
You stamped your camel coloured uggs
in perfect timing, directing the steps
as you used to, two years old in the living room
where we beat saucepans at the centre of a world
we built from clothes racks and old fruit boxes
your wide voice joining mine in a yelled song.
After all the years, the slammed doors
the times we let nothing in
and hugged our cold knees in the dark, alone
to know we can still dance like this
is enough for me to hold to
linking my arms in yours, following your feet.
Miriam Nash
