{"id":2080,"date":"2015-05-28T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:07:27","slug":"ncla-new-writing-a-moment-in-time-by-ellen-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"
NCLA New Writing:<\/h6>

‘A moment in time’ by Ellen Walker<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

after Ralph Angel<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The beachfront sings, it roars abruptly, then falls back into a lull.<\/p>\n

An elderly man sits on the same bench, a distinctly empty space hovers beside him.<\/p>\n

Sunlight grows. Sunlight hovers. Sunlight strokes your skin.<\/p>\n

We have done this all before it says.<\/p>\n

You sit on your favourite crack in the pavement beside<\/p>\n

everything you’ve given up on.<\/p>\n

But you were younger.<\/p>\n

Your mother called you ignorant, the teachers<\/p>\n

told you to grow up.<\/p>\n

The chimes of the fair grow stronger now.<\/p>\n

Whistling good morning back to the wind.<\/p>\n

You still sit on your favourite crack in the pavement, but I can’t see you.<\/p>\n

A boy hurries excitedly to the ocean’s frothing tongue.<\/p>\n

The heartbroken teen sparks up his lighter. And then his mother sighs.<\/p>\n

She turns to take the strength from the ocean.<\/p>\n

She inhales the fumes from his cigarette: an attempt to suck out his pain.<\/p>\n

You’ve grown up now, you say,<\/p>\n

but you will never grow old.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ellen Walker is a first year studying English Literature with Creative Writing, she is currently working to develop her poetry writing skills. She hopes to write for a magazine in the future and eventually have a novel published.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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