I do not
know this body—is it
mine? It does
not obey
the years that hide the past—it
unravels like lies.
It tries to
pretend, believe in
what never
was—always
the wrong age for the face I
imagined, the face
remembered
by the self I thought
secret—now
I stand exposed–
a silhouette seen in the
doorway of the night.
I tried something a little different with my collage for Sue Vincent’s photo prompt, above. I used a generic thank you card I had received in the mail for a donation as a base, and decided to go over the edges and make a kind of diorama with it.
And then of course it needed a story.
Here is how it looks when laid flat.
K. 
An excellent response to Sue’s prompt, Kerfe.
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Thanks Robbie. The photo invited a narrative response.
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I agree it did. I haven’t done any prompts for about a month as I just haven’t had any inspiration. All my energy has been poured into my new book and there is nothing left.
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I’m sure it requires a lot of energy!
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Artwork and writing, both well done.
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Thanks Petru.
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An interesting and creative idea with the collage. The silhouette on the left looks like a statue, a bust on a stand–and in my head it’s someone from history. (I don’t know why.) 😀. It is strange how our bodies change and our minds don’t recognize it exactly.
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Thanks Merril. I like the way the light played with the images too. Our minds and bodies often have a disconnect I find.
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That disconnect is one of my best connections.
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We need to get beyond and outside our selves more. We contain multitudes!
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I’ve missed your creative artistic genius!
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Aww… thanks Jodi.
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I’m glad you posted the collage laid flat. I see the arm and the hand with the key now. At first I saw in the white sleeve a grumpy ghost-face, in opposition to the still black silhouette. There’s so much in this, whichever way the eye interprets it. Yes, there is a gap between what we see and how we feel inside.
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Our eyes also often have a tenuous connection to “reality”. It expands our horizons.
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Same as our hearing. We hear what we want to hear…
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“…it unravels like lies,” That is a superb image, Kerfe.
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Thanks Sue.
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