Inspiration point (IP)

There's always an item of clothing, somewhere in the back of the wardrobe, that should have been discarded years ago but somehow you can't part with it. Or something someone else refuses to get rid of and which drives you nuts. So this week's Inspiration Point is: the piece of clothing you can't let go. Look forward to seeing the results! 

 

 

Inspiration point

Cherry

Montage of my sons. IP

Quicksilver hands as sharp as eyes. Your Trojan smiles flinty edged, your jawlines merge with the fizz and pop of consonant and vowel. American and Anglicised.

Centralian

The soil is boiling. Noxious fumes rise from fissures. Ice cubes and air-fresheners Are thrown down from the mansion windows And we are expected to...

Elegy To the Worker

The bricks of the human world are dying. Others are being born as we speak, But others still are dying And the world is dying and changing with them...
Cherry

A ‘Mayfly’ Day … (IP)

– early evening swarm above the stream – mating mayflies shimmer; with the setting sun eggs descend, mayfly die, and are no more until … nymphs hatch...

The Protest

The human being is an inherently contentious creature. Seven billion rock-wall eyes; Eyes staring belligerently down seven billion sharp noses; Noses...

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