written for Amelia Clark

My first meeting with Amelia was online, as has been the case over the last few years. We still have not yet managed to align our schedules sufficiently to make a real life get together happen, but when it does (and it will) I’m reasonably confident I’ll end up feeling like I’ve known them forever.

The artwork below is part of a larger project that has emerged from the journey I’ve been through with my second pamphlet, which is now due to be published in October. Amelia walked directly into my brain and has created a piece of art which, I’ll be honest, reduced me to tears when I first saw it.

Ours is a story which is only beginning to be written, and I really do hope there are many more chapters as yet untold.

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Mirror Twin

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This will be                       the moment

direction’s confident               reset
away  from that which previously

mattered   more than being fixed
put aside                old histories
in truth         throw them away

let us both decide to live again.
Let us emerge     into new light
prepared     to maintain confidence
in position  satisfaction unconstrained.

Let new life reflect within                  the selves.

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Poem copyright S. Reeson © 2026

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