making sense of my world
by artist Helen Shaddock

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Curated art, stories and writing

The Glitter

Lone figure floats face up
Stranger to salt water

 

Imagining brutal
Painful numb sensations

 

Cold wet salt down below
Hot dry ache up above

 

Warm mammal shivering
Fighting fear and fever

As silver sequin dress
Glitters in the sunlight

 

Plastic material
Catching scratching soft flesh


Broken mirror reframed
Bouncing light at angles

 

Granting mythos to
Body ordinary

 

 

Before they then descend
Down deep dark dread dream depths
Richard James Hall
Sibling Dream Poem #1 of 3 from
Beyond Reach
Yet Within Sight
2025