Spine Poem

ln the wolf's mouth
losing battles
the ring master's daughter
the whole woman
all passion spent
exquisite corpse

When I began studying with the Open University some three years ago I had no idea that my life would be quite so changed by the experience. I had been on course to study an open degree – one where you can choose modules from a wide range of subject areas – focussing on heritage studies with computing.

I was a trustee at a small museum and it seemed to me that this was the best way to help it modernise and move forward. However, I’m not studying creative writing and my next module is the history of art as that was what my heart said to go with.

This change of direction has been quite dramatic and the creative writing has taken me to a whole new world, one that I’d dreamt of inhabiting in the past but hadn’t quite believed I could move to.

So, this is my paper cut blog in response to the wonders of how my encounters with paper have cut, how I have cut it and my journey through this new paper world.