university – Alicia's Wonderlands

After All This Time

The compulsion to press my face against the train window and drink in that timeless view. The string of ‘Remember when’s that tumbled from my lips like fairy-tale diamonds and pearls. The feeling of coming home.

Of Expectation and Exhillaration

I don’t know what I was looking for when I first took the train a whole ten minutes North into Newcastle – billowing chimneys and red brick rows?

Valediction to Durham

I have known your seasons of perdition and regain, breathed your cutgrass summers and autumn petrichor.