My poem, ‘Bleak Love’, has been published in PASH capsule, a very cool Facebook site with a focus on love (the good and the bad), and poetry. Please check it out! https://www.facebook.com/pashcapsule (And many thanks to editor Stuart Barnes.)
My Ekphrasis Was A Fraud: Or Was It?
Which came first, the picture or the poem? In the case of a short verse I recently wrote, it was the poem. (A rather bleak one, which I paired with this picture by Scottish artist Thomas Faed, entitled ‘Faults on Both Sides’). No dissimulation was intended and yet, when readers mistakenly assumed I had written an ekphrasis, I did not immediately …