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Walking Backwards through Fire (extract) (part of a music-poetry-dance performance on the theme of origins; commissioned by VOOA, and performed in Peckham Library, 4 November 2004) I Prologue who do you think you are Poet to steal our voices to walk backwards    through the fire of our inner landscapes in search of who you are I could have journeyed    further back through the flickering flames – the threads are there – could have trekked four continents travelled through history to the origins of time it is 1889 in the Nile Valley a plague of locusts devours the crops in Mayerling Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress take their lives in France Marie-Agathe departs this world and joins her husband unwanted    4 orphan-daughters are scattered from Belgium to Algeria no one asked if we wanted to leave on nous a pas demandé si on voulait partir jamais on nous a dit tu veux tu veux pas no one ever said d’you want to or not first published in Lines in the Sand - Bradshaw Books 2008 © Anne-Marie Glasheen 1995-2008