Once again I was delighted to collaborate with Greg Hasting, this time on a piece of magical realism. Greg can be found on Instagram @greghastings1066.
Sketch of Wood Greg Hastings
The
Wormwood Doll
There
is a glitch in time, a slicing of space,
from
which she pulls the dancer – ballerina pirouettes
on
the music box to Brahms, then retires
to
the forest-floor-lullaby, sleeping beauty.
Only
the full moon can rouse her from this realm,
opaline cuts through fern canopy, splices ground,
quickens
a dawn, blush veins and the earth’s vines
relax,
release, return the nymph to the glowing path.
She
flickers between worlds. Dreamt. Real.
An
act of manifestation. Deeper the journey
to
come out the other side, where on waking
she
will dress, brush her teeth, comb her hair.
Orla
Fay
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