INSPIRATION

I need some inspiration in my life for ideas for my poster and also for a name for my film. I kind of don't want this to film to be all about the dog, ooh look how pretty it is. No. One titbit of inspiration has been given to me, and it is a poem by Simon Armitage about leaving home.

Mother, any distance greater than a single span

requires a second pair of hands.

You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,

the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.

You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recording

length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving

up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling

years between us. Anchor. Kite

I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb

the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something

has to give;

two floors below your fingertips still pinch

the last one-hundredth of an inch... I reach

towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky

to fall or fly.

Pretty nifty, hey?