Bridge: Kew
Title: Threshold
Writer: Kendra Futcher, @iamwritingandthinking
Creative partner: Paul Davis – @paulcopyrightdavis
The work: Signed Archival art print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm. A3 with border. Supplied in protective board tube.
THRESHOLD
Kendra Futcher
A conscious coupling
From me to you
Kew to Brentford
A point of connection
Between people, place and time
She has seen it all
Three times lucky
Built for another world
Bolstered and buttressed
With the changing weight of time
Then, narrow wood frame
Now, Cornish granite and Portland Stone
Ancient stone flanking our coastline
Strengthening our city
This place that fortified me
A backdrop to a rite of passage
Giving and taking
Dishing out life lessons
I crossed the bridge
Unconsciously wandering towards adulthood
Before my inner child
Crawled out from under the bed
In that loft on Kew Road
A churning stomach
A transient place
Of not belonging
You, barely visible
In a faraway land
There was no bridge.