Painted Black : an ekphrastic linked sequence, by Roger Noons and Keith Sherman

Canal Bridge Amsterdam, photography by Roger Noons (UK) 2016

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Painted Black : an ekphrastic linked sequence
 
out at last
his mother’s cycle now
repainted pink
 
surrounded by cards
she talks of it painted black 
without a light
 
curfew
a messenger leaps from
shadow to shadow
 
sliver of light ...
a tattoo of boots 
on the stairs
 
early morning call
the duty midwife arrives
just in time
 
with gritted teeth
she notices the red breast
on the window sill
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Roger Noons and Keith Sherman

Roger Noons and Keith Sherman have been writing creatively since 2006 and 2012 respectively. Active members of writing groups in the West Midlands area of the UK and of the British Haiku Society they both write prose and poetry, and in particular enjoy working in the Japanese forms which provide them with the added opportunity to write collaboratively. Two volumes of Roger’s writing have been published and both have had poems included in a range of anthologies and in the Journal of the Society.