A little girl spins around with her arms out on the top of a hill in the park

By Hari Berrow

(after Rose Lucas)

She doesn’t know it,
But in this moment
She is the link between Earth and Air.

‘Rumi’ just means a big place to her,
But for a moment
She lives closer to God
Than anyone else around her
Ever can again.

Hari Berrow is Welsh, working-class writer, dramaturg, arts journalist and academic. Her academic research explores the use science writing in creative practice, art as a form of activism and the presentation of mental ill-health in scripted works. She is a regular columnist in Buzz Magazine and has a quickly growing following on her Substack Nature with Hari Berrow. Her work has been featured in Poetry for Mental Health, LiveWIRE Poetry Zine, T’arte Magazine and Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror, and she has been an member of The Other Room Theatre’s Emerging Writer’s Programme and Sherman Theatre’s Unheard Voices.