[June 1997]

JENNY BARNARD

 

Walleah Press

Currajah

 



 

Portrait

At breakfast day after day,
I am confronted by a photograph.
A strange waif like figure
posed among flowers.
His wispy blond hair
frames his face;
he seems unreal,
unfinished like a painting
the artist gave up on
his art stamped in the eyes
blue as a Van Gogh sky.
 

 

Jenny Barnard is a writer of poems and haiku. "My ambition is to meet Seamus Heaney again!"