Monday 7 July 2014

Clasping Mystery in Your Palm!

As Twitter becomes an increasingly important platform for micro-mini creative writing, it’s  no surprise that publishers are  willing – no, anxious! – to publish quite ridiculously tiny books.

Such an outfit is the online The Origami Poems Project which produces  ‘Origami Micro-Chapbooks’ with poems so arranged that readers may print  them on a single sheet of paper, then fold them, origami-style, into  palm-sized books ready to read and share. 

Andrew.NicholsonThe project boasts more than a hundred participating poets including Mancunian, Andy Nicholson (‘Andy N’), who appeared recently as a guest contributor on this site.

I’m sure any Mancunian reading his piece below will recognise the mysterious aura of  divine damp that ever pervades our favourite city. But perhaps I’ve now left myself open to derision ..!

“Mystery Story

“Covered in slight fog

Faces blur over the sunset

 

“Stretching round the back of

The shut down bus station

 

“ Leading to the deserted dockyard

And blown out streetlights

 

“Breathing in and out slowly

Like a deer frozen in the headlights

 

“And a mystery unsolved

Dripping off the side of the bridge”.

© Natalie Wood (07 July 2014)

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