Mask of clay, damp, lumpen and grey, fills mouth, eyes, ears and wrinkles as it seeps into skin. Thrown on a nightmare wheel, it permits the dusty bogeyman to poke holes in dreams, fill them with ceramic screams. Hands wet with pulling and squeezing sweat, you mould the lump of clay into your own face. […]
Tag: Nightmare
Night Mare on the Moor
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #104 On a desolate windswept dreamscape of granite and peat, muted moss blends into bracken beaten into submission by wuthering winds. Overhead, turbulent watercolours of a nightmare gather in the sky. Scratched by a pair of ravens’ gravelly tones, the sleepwalker stirs in a tangle of burs […]
writing in north norfolk 