Friday 30 November 2012

Her songs and spells


And an attempt by me when I couldn’t find the words...



I’d asked a friend for something to put up on my fridge and the line she gave me was a play on the expression ‘to play or keep your cards close to your chest’ or not to tell others what you are intending to do. The image she created was of a card player holding her cards close to her chest, but holding them face out. Of someone guarded and secretive, yet bold and open.

But I couldn’t find any words to do with cards so I chose songs and spells instead – something revealing, something compelling. And something to suggest her contradictions – her many selves, the rarest of which being the most expressive and inspired, and perhaps the best...

Saturday 24 November 2012

Gently walk

A bit of fridge magnet poetry to capture something of a day’s rambling – and scrambling – over the mountain.


The poetry is by my fellow rambler that day.