You let my ghost wander

all over and now

my invisible feet

leave prints on the ground

I sat under a tree

This can’t be undone

I’ll always be there

nor never be gone

Lightly, not darkly

but never be gone

You invited me in

and can summon me back

still unbidden I’m there

If you want me gone

but don’t know how

you need only ask

but you have to ask

else I cannot leave

no I cannot leave

Until then

I am trapped

trapped in the glass

in the wind in the trees

I don’t want to leave

Tell me to come back

ask me to stay

I’ll sit under the tree

and I’ll never leave

Lal Davies deals in words and pictures – she is a film-maker, photographer and poet. Lal is of South Indian and Southern Irish descent. Three generations of her Indian family have been born in North Wales since coming to the UK. Lal has an established practice of first-person narrative and short documentary film-making and an emergent multi-disciplinary practice using film, photography and poetry as distinct disciplines and at the blurred edges where they meet. This work explores her relationship with nature, post-colonial narratives in Wales, race and visible difference and broader themes of love and loss. Ask Me Back/Cynefin is part of a body of work called Stories We Cannot Tell (Getting Under the Skin of Silence) currently in production as a poetry film.

Lal Davies (Poetry/Film Work) https://vimeo.com/laldavies

Lal Davies (Film/Photography/Poetry - emergent and established practices) https://laldaviesma.wordpress.com/

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