THE ARTISTS
You and I at the kitchen table
painting.
Two generations of artists
(you four, I forty-four).
Your brush busy,
delicately dipping,
touching
with care
the white paper. Your left hand
suspended above the table,
wrist bent,
hand poised in air;
on your serious little face
intense concentration.
I paint
your flaxen hair
your red apron,
your finely poised hands,
the daffodils outside the window,
but I cannot paint
the picture that you make
for me.
Copyright ©Janice Windle
2009
We are Dónall Dempsey and Janice Windle ...
It's the words that choose us, not the other way round - we've been writing and performing our poems together since 2008 and now, here we are, publishing them too.
Jan was originally trained as a fine artist and she's designed the covers and illustrations. Some of our books are highly coloured, hand assembled digital copies of Jan's artwork, and her poems are the illustrations to the pictures!
We also offer a series of short collections of our poems, between 17 and 24 poems long, on themes ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, as you will hear, see and read if you click on the links below. ............................................................
Like an angel
fallen
you sleep
sweetly in my bed
so human
my beautiful woman
the intake of your breath
slowed by a cold
my fallen angel
my so human
angel
... who snores.
Copyright ©Dónall Dempsey
2009
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