Shut your eyes,
Walk forward in a straight line.
Resist your body’s need to know where it is.
If you walk for long enough with your eyes closed
it begins to feel like you’re walking on the spot.
A kind of eternal perfection happens
and you can’t tell the beginning
or the end (William Basinski).
Billie J Daniel is a writer and artist based in London, from a working-class background. He graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in Fine Art. In his time away from writing, he likes to go birding with his partner, play board games with his friends, and analyse his favourite sport, boxing. His work explores ideas of perception, love, anxiety, and trauma, and has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Bulb Region, The Orange Rose Lit, Shadow and Sax, Blood + Honey Lit and others. Discover more online: www.billiejdaniel.com and on Instagram @billiejdaniel
