Readers and Writers Week

Summer

you uncomfortable joke!

Clouds, you fly dangerously close

and falling dreams make hopeless midnight feed

Come rain, sweep out my dark mood

Give me sunrise

Send in that rare sunny caress

The quintessential key.

Found art

This summer I've been astounded by the wealth of found art around me. Twilight patterns rendered in sand on a windy beach, a beautiful scale dinosaur evolving on a wall onmy way to the studio, these picture poems by an artist at Toi Poneke (the Arts Centre up the road from me) and a small poignantly paced puppet show in the french style which has played everyday in the mall this past week. Honestly, the volume of creativity in my local community is both humbling and astounding!