Rhyme Share Poetry Club Gerty Muldoon
I saw Elaine Feinstein in the poetry tent at Latitude. An old lady then, she was touring her book ‘Portraits’. She was mesmerising.
The book is well worth the read. So many finely drawn portraits of friends, artists, other times and places, memory and loss. We are drawn into that vividly remembered world through her minds eye.
Towards the end of the book, she pulls out of the world of her mind, and writes as she imagines she is seen in ‘real life’, a portrait of her by her confused Polish cleaner.
I love that last line… And I understand now. What she does there is her life.
Ewa Maria and Friends 
“Poetry is not an expression of personality, it is a escape from personality.”
T.S. Elliot
I mean:
yes and not,
it is both, like this puzzle over,
like this old women in her nightie
standing on com before of
hate and love