Amy Souza and Kay Syrad

Amy Souza
“Stolen Moments”
Monoprint and ink on notebook paper
Response

Afternoon Out
By Kay Syrad
Inspiration piece

I think nothing here, lying on the stones, listening to the water’s twillup on my left and its huhhuhwilla on my right,

and at one point, a singing starts up in my head, ‘I stole my mother’s…’, and this is after sitting beneath the defences,

the wind on my flesh, and walking back past a hedge of noisy birds and a secret message on the long fence:

O WPCA/PNSY/LB33/ AK/ Y / 25 x 50 which I find I can translate, later, as:

dress  sift  wind  of  I / sails  rise  must  love / I  trade  loss  over  fall/

I   you /ask  love’s  more  fail / fall  is  haven / this  this  all

 

Author’s note: “Afternoon Out” was was first published in The Needlewriters (Frogmore Press, 2015).

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