The fragile paper almost torewith the pressure of her pen,ink blotting, words bleeding.So she wrote it out againon thicker vellum. The original words had fallenlike confetti from her hand – butwhen she copied them out,they did not express her emotion;they seemed flat. Heart fluttering with frustration,hand slick with perspiration,she focused on the punctuation;the final full […]
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Clean Hands and Clean Feet
I’m delighted that I have another ekphrastic poem in Volume 5, Chapter 7 of the Visual Verse Anthology. You can find it on page 11 or you can follow the link to ‘Clean Hands and Clean Feet‘.
writing in north norfolk 