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.

Mourning

  Last night a memory came to me; That room,  Those stark walls, The facts laid bare.  How we sat,  My head on his arm, A sudden panicked th...