Tag: poetry
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The Exhibition
She enters the exhibition. Roomsand rooms of paintingsstretch out around her. What is the correct order:of rooms,of paintings? Gripping her pamphlet,she begins the task,stepping up to each canvas. The paintings are of rooms. Conceptually, she entersa roomwithin a room one after another. She steps back. A red dot.Then another. But not enoughnot nearly enoughto sustain this weight.…
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Sitting
My son finds sitting for me hard and being in my painting room frustrating He says, ‘What is the point of all this? All these pictures, if they’re just going to sit here?’ I try to reassure him Its ok, I enjoy it The point is to try to see better They might go somewhere He wants a fiver for sitting for me For him now things are…
NIKKI FOSTER 