To me, the rooftop holds so many memories of encounters and delightful observations. Paired with the expansive horizon, it inspires hope and a sense of reaching beyond.

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Into this skybound green and glass,

come children running,

“Look mummy! Look daddy!”

With words, they turn moments into songs,

such is a universe of their own

Come friends and lovers to bask and laugh,

joyful gurgling and sparkling dreams of ‘morrow,

each an orbit of their own, with only time to borrow

Come dreamers musing,

upon the grassy humps gazing—

the flyer, the river, the sun, the skyscrapers!

Into this skybound green and glass,

I often come wandering—

the Full Circle bench is where I’d sit,

thinking of spinning aways and merry returns,

the finite cycles of our small days

Once I noticed a girl

squint her eyes

and then with outstretched hands

over those spikey domes

graze the air,

giggling at an imagined prickling.

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This track is part of the audio tour, Eye-to-I, a programme under Voices – A Festival of Song 2021.