Janine

"... then we went to work by bus,
early, cold, usually,
sat on the back seat.made friends
over months.
one condemned girls
like me without knowing
my history. one was marked
with spots i did not see.
i only saw how kind he was to me ..."

'the bus poem' by Sonja Benskin Mesher

With ear-phones in place, Janine enjoys her music as she is carried to Cardiff. At peak times, this twenty mile bus journey can take sixty minutes or more.