The last string That little town where every kid starts out with a festival of balloons each step they’re followed by every colour before they know the names of any of them to grow up means to let go of strings and one by one, they do when did you realise your body was a … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura, Yvonne Marjot and myself. May 19th.

The past of those passed collected on felled trees, on stones that mattered. We have written out our lives, thrown a few words against the social wind; maybe a few have clung to the dying willows. I doubt it. We’re transients on this earth. We don’t know how to live with this earth. A silent … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 18th.

* Murakami’s cats, the peeling memory, an unhealthy preoccupation with Studio Ghibli animation, an unhealthy preoccupation with certain social media accounts, with line breaks that you have to get over – eventually. Ninety-percent of my life is devoted to upsetting people with a line break, forming only at the preposition. It seems, most of the … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 17th.

heart of stone all through the millenia all egbert wanted was to play with the other statues -Rich Follett  .pensive. a quizzical look grey frowns the brow wrinkles did it do wrong neutered into submission wandering lost the way she said she will trap it send it away her aggressive with the lockdown envious of … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura, Yvonne Marjot and myself. May 16th

Tanks Lilies, petal wrapped, their colour smiles in water’s drift. A summer’s dreamer, her flowers are purple rain catchers. Tanks: ancient reservoirs, lilies far as sight permits. Under chlorophyll isles drift tangled fronds where swimmers weave their cool green, hydraulic dreams. Elephants drink here and stick legged avians break journeys. To stand pensive, in these … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 15th

Right before the fall A heartbeat before the slide you know you’re going down A monkey brain knows when the branch is about to crack And a kid feels the birth of the tiny split in the ice spreading from his last footstep We learn to fall before we know the promise we make by … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 14th

Visions A cataract blackens my right eye, the one I used to look at the sun; no one is left to ask why, because you are lost in dust, and our friends are lost with you at that final beach-mob outpost. Looking into the sun, then at you spread out, lovely and moist, all I … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 13th

* Once bought a bottle of Jack Daniels for forty euros, in a truck stop, somewhere, and drank it, snowed in, on a grey-peak mountainside, and when vomited, early into white, coffee mugs, wondered how bad the head would be in three to four hours, when the sun would not rise, but would gleam again … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 12th

eleven is ten continued.. I sat on the wall a while further up a guy was painting a cat I watched him clever I heard a small noise to the left turned found the bloody orange thing was back fussing around colouring up the air smelling slightly warm and damp mid sucking noises the face … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura and myself. May 11th

orange it came flaring while I was minding my business as always looking at to sea hoping for a boat on the horizon I got this thing whizzing round my face warm emulsifying, wreaking havoc with the serenity buzzed my ears and stayed there until defeated I moved to the wall and sat there a … Continue reading Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes, Elizabeth Moura, Leela Soma and myself. May 10th