Giant
Turtles
Flying
paving stones
faces
of gurus and Chinese eyes
old
men's necks, snakes' skin feet
embryo
fleshed in formaldehyde
How
old are you?
The
largest comes to the bubble fluke
again,
again,
rubbing
his back flippers
a
sort of ecstasy
Puts
in his head,
the
eyes close
he
drinks
gulps;
water
massages him
so
tender.
Carapace
precious,
polished,
viewed
in every dimension.
His
plastron on display
cream
obscene
vulnerable.
Of what would you be capable?
© Jane Blank 2004
from her poetry collection
Jane Blank is a published novelist, poet & lecturer in Creative Writing.
Launch date 17th May 2008
The Geometry of Love
Set in Sheffield and the ghetto-suburbs of 1980s Lille, a white middle-class girl secretly marries an Algerian man twice her age and begins a new life as a Muslim wife in Northern France. The final climax is played out between her and her younger friend, for whom friendship has become obsession. The story is told in flashback from the younger girl's point of view and begins with a prologue taken from later in the book. Here she has become obsessed with her friend's husband, Omar - embroiled in a dangerous triangle of love.
Available to order here on Amazon, here from Gwales.com or from the publisher,
Y Lolfa, & from all good bookshops.
Naked Playing the Cello
is a collection of Jane's Poetry available from the Welsh Book Council (just type 'Jane Blank' in the search engine on that site) or follow the links on the Collective Press Website.
Information about courses run by Jane on
Creative Writing & Shakespeare's plays,
may be obtained from
Farncombe Estate Centre, Cotswolds, England
or
The Hill Education & Conference Centre, Abergavenny, Wales