Event

11th October, Billericay Library, Poetry Reading

Bio
Originally from South London, Eileen Mayer now lives in Stock Essex.
Together with Portuguese artist Rodrigo Costa a book of paintings and poems entitled ‘The Landscape as the Place of Everything’ was published in October 2010. While new to the poetry circuit Eileen has had poems published in Ireland and in the UK and is now working on a project based in Holloway, relating the stories of disadvantaged people that frequent a drop-in breakfast centre. 

Poem

Rubbish

A plastic bag picking up the breeze
handles down and bottom up
sucking into itself a corner tuck.
Inflating now like a capital noun,
a rolling dash scraping ground
expelling air from its flimsy lung.
Part of a phalanx of exuberance
from a downward draft, abandoning
its mind, losing all identity.
Then a respiratory thought takes
shape, rare among such waste
posthumously conducting the wind,
because of what it has become -
an Aspiration - out of its box!