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.

We are Memory

  How far back can we remember ?  One hundred years ? I wasn't around in 1925 and my family talked about the Second World War all the ti...