Wheels Within Wheels: Wednesday Afternoons, Agnew Park

Bikes. Like us, come in many shapes and sizes. Like us, they have quirks and vulnerabilities which may explain why we don't ride around on Penny Farthings anymore, or why bike shops offer so many products claiming to smooth out bumpy rides. If you visit Agnew Park in Stranraer on a Wednesday afternoon, you'll see me riding my son around on a platform wheelchair bike provided by Wigtownshire Stuff Adapted Bike Project. Cycling is synonymous with freedom, but for us it mirror's life's constraints as we ride around the park, lap after lap. But there's a hypnotic aspect to circling, a kind of meditative flow, and doing the same thing, at the same time, in the same place, makes you see it. The loch, the town, the park, the people, the feeling of circling around life as if you're getting nowhere but everywhere, all at the same time; this made the poems.