Edinburgh Mews
(Jan Finlayson, Jill Cameron, Judy Wilson, Kirsty Lewin, Nicky Melville, Moira Naismith)


Opposites Tract: A Mews’ Bouche Language Event


1.

Five police held the leprechaun down in IKEA while the sergeant tasered him. No terrorists dropped a gnome up out the boutique before a civilian earthed her. Aye pacifists picked up a fairy inside the cell after a soldier skyed him. No warrior dropped a monster into a convent when the nun was in the silent room. Yes, many cowards lifted a spirit disassembled the prison if a murderer is out of loud garden. Few brave men sunk in reality put together freedom when a doctor is in a quiet house.


2.

There were so many students in the park that they trampled on the spears of grass we were trying to observe. There weren’t any tutors outside the library because they didn’t tiptoe under the planks we were making no effort to hide. All the babies inside a paper recycling centre stamp over a tree, they are undoing every laziness to speak. One pensioner in the library tiptoes under the table with such vigour everyone is silent. Not one baby was in the forest clod homping over a plate outwith excluding slothlike no one was explicit. Several adults weren’t outside a building softly tripping into a cup including vigour. Everyone is coy.

Edinburgh Mews is the collective name for a long-running writing class facilitated by nicky melville. Participants, past and present, include Clare Hewitt, Eimear Murphy, Jan Finlayson, Jill Cameron, Judy Wilson, Kirsty Lewin, Moira Naismith, though not all feature in this piece.

 
 

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