Epilogue



Jolie Laide

There she hangs, his masterpiece and her own,

Immortalised in paint, painted over until,

A finished moment masks all that went before.


This Jolie Laide, new illusion of truth,

breaks the old mirror of imagined beauty and,

Up rise a confluence of feelings


As we stand before it.

Wishes - a thought experiment on grief

Y ou must be specific with wishes.  A genie has already spent one hour paying close attention to the details of a special teddy bear whose f...