A Shower of Poems

Flickering in the light like magic tickets. They tumbled out of the air. People raised their arms and jumped and tried to catch the tiny slips of paper. Like catching a bouquet at a wedding.

On the pieces of paper were poems. Poems written by poets all over the world.

They were let go from a helicopter on the evening of the 26^th June. They fluttered down from the sky and landed on London’s Southbank. Like a parcel of food flung from a plane they felt like little presents. I wasn’t there to catch one, but I was sent a poem in the post.