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.

Is Not

  Writing's not a comfy chair Alan Bennett said  And I thought  A person's not a house Character's not clothes Love is not a bun...