{"id":268,"date":"2011-05-27T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=268"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:14:15","slug":"word-and-image-from-helen-pletts-and-romit-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/word-and-image-from-helen-pletts-and-romit-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Word and Image from Helen Pletts and Romit Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alchemy
\u00a0<\/span>
Your face like a kitten, small in the morning,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 where two commas mark a smile<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 broad enough to section the heart of a lamb<\/span>
and turn a pressed coin of copper the likeness of aurum.<\/span>
\u00a0<\/span>
Was it a fool\u2019s morning, that set me bright on my way<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my ventricles burning hot beneath woolfleece<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my pennies spinning first into silver<\/span>
before your shine sliced these fine red segments through with yellow?<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Poem by Helen Pletts<\/span> whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are both published by YWO\/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and available on Amazon. \u2018Bottle bank\u2019 was longlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize 2006, under Helen\u2019s maiden name of Bannister. You are welcome to visit www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Image by Romit Berger<\/span> who says\u00a0 \u201cI am a graphic designer. I met my very dear friend, Helen Pletts, in Prague, several years ago. Helen\u2019s inspiration has led my graphic design career into that magical realm which combines illustration and poetry, and our creative wings continue to connect our souls through time and distance.\u201d<\/span>
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Alchemy\u00a0Your face like a kitten, small in the morning,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 where two commas mark a smile\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 broad enough to section the heart of a lamband turn a pressed coin of copper the likeness of aurum.\u00a0Was it a fool\u2019s morning, that set me bright on my way\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my ventricles burning hot beneath woolfleece\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my pennies spinning first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21020,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/21020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}