Graham Ovenden (1987 monograph) / 127b.jpg

artscan 🇬🇧 2013-03-19 13:47
Poetry Broadsheet 'Tilly', 1986

artscan 🇬🇧 2013-03-19 13:47
Text reads: "I first saw Tilly on boulder beach./ Lean, lanky child in grub'd rub'd flutter frock./ Seen chasing billows, filling dress .../ So thin those downy arms that downward press/ on cotton cloth three sizes small,/ which rise but quarter down her thighs .../ (Convenient brief to test wild wavelets mingling crest)./ Grey eyes - long lashed, sand hair - short cropped:/ teeth trifle large - but chisel cut./ Chat stopped only for an instant:/ then that smile, what artful ploy .../ but tender./ Trailed garden seaweed, slender fingers scooping moated plot/ round pebble piled crowned castle top./ At times when seeming 'lone she'd discard clinging, modest shift .../ to run and swim in naked skin, sun shimmered, wind flecked goosing limb./ Shout fearless to white waters belly salting/ between arch legs taunting./ Tilly's play grew girlhood's promise ... Broke:/ I never saw her more .../ (Yet hold the memory of a child - that child in store to ease a moment's melancholy)."

faune 🇫🇷 2013-04-16 15:06
Fantastic album from a great artist. Thank you so much for sharing this quality of emotion.