Thursday, July 21, 2016

Julie McElhone #23 Ekphrasis - Just a Girl by Jenny Watson at RoslynOxley9


I am a fourth wall

overheating in my thick coat
under downlights
like a piece of work

in a room of girlish figures and?
Yes, linseed, pigment and plaster.

Dug in on the couch so 
I don’t have to stand on my own
waiting to strike

awkward conversation
I want to be free me, bigger
in a bigger space

heels strike the floor
pinging the atmosphere,

on the far wall a girl looks to the heavens

a solar being
to the stars or of the stars
which do you want her to be?

I don’t think much about it I just work by instinct

and time moves to the right
where a second girl
is an arcadian ideal
blindfolded and wrapped
as a template for she virtue

then the third more to the right
more now but virtual
a girl in a tiny room
lying back on a tall bed
easy
a princess in a tower far far away

from the first universal
child

Come let’s step through and smash some walls
till she is solar again.


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