happenings
ekphrasis: a verbal representation of a visual representation
On now at the Colborne Art Gallery
Art & Words
including my poetic response to Ken Solilo’s photograph, below
CHIAROSCURO
Turning Pages, photograph by Ken Solilo
pitchblack‒the background‒night or intentional obscurity
the foreground‒white pages of a book open and airy
composed of light‒composed to fathom the inky sea
between light and the words that reveal light
look again‒into the obsidian depths of that glossy surface
book and its faint reflection suggest a mask‒concealment
then pages become feathers‒the whole thing‒regalia
looking back at you‒wordless
The Word On The Hills is…
…this Sunday, January 18 at 1:00 p.m. on Northumberland 89.7 FM, you can hear my chat with Felicity and Gwynne from Word on the Hills about my new book, As If Through a Window. If you miss the show, it can be streamed and podcast at
https://northumberland897.ca/
and will be available next week at
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Traveller
Jizo bodhisattva, whose figures are often clothed or capped in red, protects travellers on the way. Jizo is evoked by these red capped lichen called British Soldiers. Go in peace!
It has been published this month in http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html, a semi-annual on-line magazine filled with exquisite verse and images in the tradition of Japanese short poetry.