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A SELECTION OF ILLUSTRATED WRITING.

Pretty pictures made to poetry, short stories, and when the grass turns Blue By Pete Leonard, new blues extrodinaire. Writing from Dan Moran, Alan Francois, James Walker, Rosie Cook, Bryon D. Howell, Gemma Rutter, Padrika Tarrant, Frank A. Possemato, Mark Brown, Maxwell Kusi-Obodum.

Illustration from Colette Lilly, Becca Thorne, Creature, Ed Rea-Allison, Robert Hope, Chris Getliffe, Uberpup, Scott Whiteman, Ali Lee, Sarah Gooch, Jay B.


 

 
 

One Moment Along a Street in Kensington

Behind windowglass,
cut into a recess of brick,
four floors over the street,
the lady of the house standing,
her ample waist pressed
to the basin rim.

A black car passes
below, then another.
All is damp with the sheen
of an early morning rainfall.

A young mother
forces her pram
toward a familiar corner.

In a doorway
a wisp of a man
expresses smoke, up
into the heavy air.

Rain clouds
withhold and somersault
over the rooftops.

 

 

Behind the window
the lady guides water
over a breakfast dish.
She lays down the rag
to scratch at
a reluctant speck
of clotted egg.

Content, she places it
almost vertically
in a wooden rack.
She takes up
what is next,
a teacup,
her husband’s fork.

The water
collects and falls
toward a dark place.

 
 

The man
casts his fag end
into the gutter.

The taxi is lost
along the distance
as is the next.

The lady of the house
disappears into
the silent inner elsewhere.
The last of the moisture
runs from the plates as

The young mother
turns her pram
at the corner and
is gone.

 

 

Writing - Dan Mora

Illustration - Colette Lilly

Dan is doing two readings in London on May 15 and 16 further details on his website