• Location: Horsham, UK
• Mood: awake

I have maps in my head

I have maps in my head.
Maps of longs walks
where I grew up.
Maps of long, solitary
cycle rides and walks
with or without
an my accompanying dog¹.

Later maps of
university towns²
_ visits to friends' neighbourhoods
in other or the same towns.
Cities and countryside
memories of expeditions
_ of rambles aimless rambling meanders
in the daytime
and at night.

I can no longer safely wander
as I used to for all those years³.
I miss the aimless space to think
that cycling and walking
with no intended destination
create as they free my mind⁴.

- n

Again, this is typed up without editing and was written in about three minutes just now.

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Changes I might make:
¹ my faithful, secret-keeping dog.
² university cities
³ as I used to all those years.
⁴ created as they freed my mind.