Raised in an Arabian land of heat, fire and temper,
sometimes the calm of England clamps down
like damp in a bathroom with no window
and a loud, inefficient extractor fan.
The setting is ordinary.
I sit on a bench in a small town square,
looking at a cobblestone floor,
pretending to hear whispered romantic
secret stories in the rain — soft.
The stones sigh an outlandish tale of unrequited love.
I see a young couple squishing themselves together
in front of a music-shop window. The guy rubs
his hands along her bum, loving it.
There is such comfort in roundness.
The shop's display of old music sheets
and DVD screens remains static.
The ground reverberates with the struggles and throes of age.
An old woman pulls her shopping trolley up small steps
with the effort of a Greek hero slaying demons.
And I am lost somewhere
in between
the couple and the woman.
Neither young nor old.
But I have been and I will be.
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Apartment / Containers
By Vincent BezuidenhoutThese diptychs are the start of a series of images I have been working on regarding the visual landscape we choose to surround ourselves…Read More- NonText
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Drag and Snap
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Human/Nature
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Pretty Babies
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Attractiveness: The Up and Up
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Evidence of Life
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In Between
By Tania van SchalkwykRaised in an Arabian land of heat, fire and temper,sometimes the calm of England clamps downlike damp in a bathroom with no windowand a…Read More- PreText
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Or: a line drawing
By Gabeba BaderoonPencil and nothing. Her face turned almost entirely away. Forehead, cheekbone,jaw,the bun low in her neck,shoulderand down,the long linejust enoughthen left alone.Read More- PreText
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Un Hombre Fuerte
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Unbroken Awareness
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Ten-Pin Mention and Other Spare Parts
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The Incised Wound
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The Plaster of Paris City
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