Poetry & art Darklight: full artwork and technical description below.
The dream began with a melody,
an unsteady pulse.
Time was a pale mist,
a lazy shoal of raindrops.
I journeyed to another world,
and night gave way to sunlight
that trickled like honey.
What We May Learn of Truth and Flowers—full artwork and technical description below. Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time.
What We May Learn of Truth and Flowers
On a quiet summer morning,
you told me that you’d fallen
in love with someone else.
Artwork Solar Creation 2—full artwork and technical description below. Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time.
Selena
There are those who would
strip her secrets away, leaving
only dry and dusty bones.
Others seek an illusionary stranger
who never inhabited her body.
Artwork Burning Summer Flux—more detail, full artwork, and technical description below. Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time.
Time Passing
Madeleine had painted her ceiling
black, splashed it with stars
and a waning crescent moon.
Artwork Bushland River—more detail, full artwork and technical description below.
Conditional
And if there were a quiet garden,
cosy and safe, in some forgotten
postcode where time trickles like honey,
and where I might pause and know,
not that my struggles were in vain,
Artwork Incarnate on the Inside—more detail, full artwork and technical description below.
The Summer of the Seventeenth Heatwave
“… then the waterfowl,
in silent affirmation,
chose me as their leader …
“… and in the summer
of the seventeenth heatwave,
I followed my dreams to where
the flowers bloom after dark …