For Jane

artwork and photography by Ginny Benton

 

 

Alone in pastel shades of hushed reverie

Warmed in cloak of leather-bound companion

Seen only through the spaniel’s drooping lid

Skittish fingers pick scabs of spirit gum

Rude remains of a face discarded

Hanging lifeless on vanity’s edge

 

She lives alone ‘neath  purple heather

Dried and thatched tight against the fall rains

Layered walls of earth-toned clay

Repel the chilling breath of woolfen wind

Steeled by Eyre’s solemn resolve

She waits for a faceless stranger

 

 

 

Keyword:Facade