Past Paintings
This painting was based on a poem I wrote in the 1980s so I really feel it is a crossover between Past and Present work.
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Birds land with out-stretched claws
Flowers vibrate and scream.
A frozen child
Unprotected
Hands out-reaching
Eyes seaward
Erect on the rock of a sandy beach,
Wild water edging inwards and upwards
Soon to engulf, then uncover, lay bare and abandon.
The birds escape in the wind, eyes blinded
There and then gone: there but never there
Leaving behind them their pérfume.