All Angles

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Dod Proctor - Early Morning, Newlyn (1926)

Another poem about Newlyn in Cornwall, the UK mainland’s southernmost fishing port.

 

 

FISHING PORT

 

All angles –

rooftops and the

smooth sea.

 

Curved lines,

hauling up the

morning’s catch.

 

From coastal

fishing grounds

to beds of ice.

 

Sleeping with

lips parted

and eyes open.

 

Silently mouthing,

the auctioneer’s

loud voice.

 

Revived by

the warm oven:

a silver-faced choir

singing to the starry

firmament above.

 

 

Paul Bommer - Stargazy Pie

 

A Fairytale Romance

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Victor Burgin - Untitled (1991) Tate

 

CINDERELLA [v.I.]

 

Savouring –

the curved line

of her shoe.

 

 

 

Victor Burgin - Untitled (1991) Tate

CINDERELLA [v.II.]

Lost –

gazing into the elegant

lines of her shoe.

Black Efflorescence Pumps - by Roger Vivier (Vanity Fair)

Leafless

Loose Leaves – Looking Back

 

Kaii Higashiyama - Song of Silence (1981)

 

VERSAILLES

 

Tall leafless trees

mirroring

                  autumn.

 

 

 

The Local Regular

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Dod Procter - Tolcarne Inn (1935)

 

TOLCARNE INN

 

Listening to the soft

creak of floorboards

by the bar, and the low

murmur of warm and

gentle conversation.

 

 

 See also: Leaf 366

Sisters

Loose Leaves – Reflections

 

Jiwoon Pak - Fade to Grey (2015)

 

My wife and

her sister –

their voices merge.

 

 

 

Rural Rush Hour

Loose Leaves – Looking Back

 

C.F. Tunnicliffe - Welsh Hill Farm (1949)

This illustration, although set in Wales, reminds me of a very Withnail-esque time several years ago when, while out walking down a country lane in Cornwall, we were overtaken by a herd of cows heading back to the milking shed.

 

 

Caught up –

evening commute

back to the farm.

 

 

 

Morning Snow

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Claude Monet - The Magpie (1869)

Crisp and clean –

a magpie amid

the morning snow.