Frances-Ann Norton: Poetry

 Angel Andrea - charcoal drawing on cartridge, A1, Frances-Ann Norton It is wonderful to be working with instagram@alicemaryjelaska once again in the Pop-up-space Hackney, Mare St, London. for an exhibition of visual art and poetry in February 2024. The theme was Tea and Friendship.  Angel Tea   The pictures on my phone divide into days, events, trips, workshops. Important, in-focus ones are instagrammed, facebooked and tweeted.   What about the in-betweeny photos? The ones that are unchosen, abstract, blurred, accidental handbag shots. These need further study, they are more than they first appear, less than rejects. They represent moments of autoethnographic honesty, unheard dialogue, fear, tears, tech-impatience or pure love. So interesting and to be banked for another day, a future art-investigation-project. When I seek to unravel and analyse these images, make meaning out of them… I see the visitation of the Angel of Communities, in the corners and on the edges ...

 Forget me not press #6 Feast St Pio for Tea Lovely to be included in this Canadian Poetry zine.  Apple Feast   Quiet lived day, little flowers of happiness. The time to sit on this autumn morning looking out of the window at our garden. The blackbirds are here again and a small family sit on the garden table. A feast of windfall apples I have laid. Slowly turning from yellow to red to brown.   Daily small pecks appear on some of them as the blackbird take their fill of fruit. The pecking and eating gets deeper into the apple so they become translucent as eggshell. Hollowed out, firefly candle glow, warmed from the inside by the autumn sun. And my thought. I was glad to have gathered these fruits as feast for the birds.