Frances-Ann Norton: Poetry

Breast Diaries 3 It just keeps floating to the visible Top of my consciousness Beethoven symphony 7 Second movement That’s the kind of gloomy I feel. Les Misrables was great! I cried all the way through, fabulous release I can feel a bout of over eating coming on Just anything to numb the pain. Seven hours of solid paperwork Just anything to completely absorb myself in Food Pinterest Weepy movie Work. Anything so I don’t have to think About this left breast Numb Absorb Deaden Suffocate Stuff down Suppress Stamp down Tamp Insulate. All these things I’m cotton-wooling my mind I’m bubble wrapping my emotions Because it is weird, it is hard and it is so, so scary. All the ifs and buts and two whole weeks to wait Am I fine? Am I ok? No I’m not ok I’m starting arguments I’m hypercritical I’m prickly I’m lashing out I will be gone, they will continue I have to keep saying that to myself b

Breast Diaries 2 Mortality. Death. I will go, They will continue. I will die, They will remain. Lashing out for no good reason. Hogging the conversation. Being a downer to people – the doom bearer. I am being a pain in the ass. It is so distracting. images : Ring of Brogdar Orkney, satelite map https://archaeologistsinresidence.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/kirkwall-grammar-school-s1-rapid-counter-mapping-of-the-ring-of-brodgar/  Ring of Brogdar,  http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/stone-circles/orcadian/article_brodgar.htm

Breast Diaries 1 Ultrasound excavations back-lit landscape night-time outlook moon-lit scene. On screen In black and white The insides of my breast in greyscale. The enormous wooden TV dad bought in 1974 Watching the horses and horse and horses Jump fences at Aintree Like nothing I had ever seen Every horse and rider a crackling, fizzing, silhouette. This arial view of the countryside with blobs and strings, patterns and sub patterns Rings of Mercury And strange un-named planets Is my interior taskscape. Turn away Hide from Fear worse than anything else what? images, Stone Henge and Norfolk archaeological site.