We were young

Reading Nigel Krauth's 'Mediterranean songs' in a special issue of TEXT journal (2014), I was enthralled. The first person plural narrative nudged me to trial a similar form. Questioning how it might work, I found curiosity in the narrator: who was 'we'? Was it one separate entity, for example 'me and my cousin and my dog', or were they plural individuals with some shared understanding, for example identical twins? I sought an immediacy of reporting as well as an adult-sized knowledge (a product of retrospection) to indicate a passage of time. This story encapsulates the importance of an episode in a child's life, or in multiple children's lives, a chapter reviewed and reconsidered, hence another perspective of 'we'-being the child and the adult, and a singularity of mind.