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How Are You Brother? Amen. It was 4p.m when the yellow van arrived, and I was glad. The Sunday breeze was slightly tinged with…Read More
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One – She wore her nakedness too well, it scared me. Two – Her breasts were a monument; a single one covered my universe whole - it…Read More
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An elaborate classical Roman arch frames Raphael's School of Athens (1509-1510), behind which three more arches advance towards a vanishing point; focusing the viewer's…Read More
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Vision is a wide-reaching concept. With this piece, I'm merging the physical/literal idea of vision, (as in seeing) with the idea of en-visioning. Watching…Read More
Karen Jennings
Friday, 24 February 2017 15:01
Chicken
That was where we
saw the chicken being eaten by another.
It had been hit
by a car, that first one.
The second, coming to
inspect what remained,
pulled at the neck’s threaded flesh until
it snapped and fell.
Cannibal chicken, we shouted. It's
a cannibal chicken! While
a man, passing with
his mule and a bicycle wheel under one arm,
turned to
look at us, shaking his head at
our licence plate and
the noise we city folk made.
saw the chicken being eaten by another.
It had been hit
by a car, that first one.
The second, coming to
inspect what remained,
pulled at the neck’s threaded flesh until
it snapped and fell.
Cannibal chicken, we shouted. It's
a cannibal chicken! While
a man, passing with
his mule and a bicycle wheel under one arm,
turned to
look at us, shaking his head at
our licence plate and
the noise we city folk made.