Other lives are lived before floating back up into rumple of covers, Saturday morning remembers other occasions when light threw the same hue onto bedspread, the hundreds of occasions of waking up wiping dust from the eyes and head, the world blinked back slowly into intermittent existence, the underworld snatched at in puzzle pieces soonContinue reading “Other Lives”
Author Archives: Mabel Lee
Revelation
Bristling black, oil green on black the carnivorous head bent with pinball eyes jerking, glaze of glass The beast hovers, hobbles with an ancient gait, giant from continual dreaming, smothers everything in sight of window. Anxieties brew from the underside up — coaxed into skin and liver, bred into flight from the brain, on theContinue reading “Revelation”
Space Between
Negative space drawing: eraser on charcoal background Night gleaming by. Brick, concrete, lights lit and unlit, continual pantomime of red to green. The dance of the inanimate which evening tempers into the empty city after-dark. If you focus on the negative space the objects which claim it lose their urgency of presence. They connect whereContinue reading “Space Between”
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