Bag of Tricks

For over sixty years, I have crept into the soul of the Fool. This traditional stock character in folklore is imbued with a certain sense of power, wisdom and magic. He can raise the dead as in the Saint George Mummers Plays, follows with authority as the last dancer in the Abbot s Bromley Horn Dance. He laughs, protects, projects warmth and kindness and mystery. These stories and poems based on fun, frivolity and sorrow, come from his bag of tricks.