ODE TO MY SELF
Should I stumble –
Catch me Falling
Knowing I can safely
Let go
Trusting in You
To never let me crash
You are my Fail-Safe
The Shadow that is there
Even when I am
Out of Reach
You do not Abandon Me
And I hold your Heart
In Mine
You are my Reflection
And I am You
Jools Elphick 2015 all rights reserved
Jools Elphick has been creating original knitwear designs since launching her first womenswear label ‘KULT KNITZ’ in 1986.……..Jools Elphick 2015
The Cheering
Sorrow is hollow ground
with dried mud
cracking trapped space.
It’s wearing green screen suits
against a green wall
freezing everything but faces
with movies projected on cheeks
we watch in the nude
drinking opinionated Scotch
with American inhalable fear.
We are molecules, cells
invisible parts of something
that brightens in abundance
or bounces in 4:00 AM non-stop minds.
Hyperbole is our common name
trained to the glare that scares and moans.
We move as if concrete were setting
on multiple alternate lives.
Sensation is the escape we love.
Imagination winks us on.
Sculptures by Belinda Subraman