Sleek Mulberry bag
woman in charge
in control. Inside
chaos, messed up, fucked up
life shattered, mess, destruction, desolation
broken BlackBerry
torn tampax wrapper, creased picture of mum
cut hair substitute cut wrists
diazepam dust.
scissors confiscated, cracked mirror approved
search suspended, hands removed
shame imbued
4 comments:
I think this is beautiful and moving
I love the contrast between the sleek beautiful handbag and the awful chaos that is within it. The imagery is very disjointed, disturbing. Excellent!
Very eloquent in so few words. Fabulously powerful imagery. I loved the broken Blackberry - it brings it right up to date and these days one's life is on a Blackberry. It's also symptomatic of keeping up a front and keeping up with the Joneses, again the antithesis of the interior life described here.
Hi there - and forgot to say, by the way, amazing qabalah picture. Oh we so need to talk! Anyway I'm sending everyone this link as it has tons of writing opportunities on it that you may want to pursue - competitions, calls for submissions etc. I've pulled out some really appropriate ones I think would be good for you all and will give you next term but in the meantime do look: www.literaturetraining.com and then go to the "jobs and opportunities" link on the left. hope that works. Lots of calls for poetry submissions you might think about. Anna xx
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