Winter 2005

WINTER 2005

Peter Lewin EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK After the painting by Dorothea Tanning 201's ajar, a slant of light: the eye of a nightmare. Giant sunflower broken on the landing; petals on the stairs. Children traumatised: 8 year old Mary corkscrew golden hair torn dress; yellow petal in hand - leaning by the door: washed out, blood drained. Jane 7, ripped skirt; hair rippling upwards: no apples in the cheek -- just a face of grief. The sunflower a crucified Christ cut down from heaven. Someone's dying out of frame in room 209. In 207 a raven's pecked out teddy's brown eyes. Outside a snowstorm; and the virgins are the bone-chimes of tomorrow. Peter Lewin grew up in 'the idyllic village of Silverdale' in North Lancashire. His book of poems "Silverdale" was published in 2003 by Kendal Press, Lancashire. Poems by Lewin have appeared in Rialto, Crane, Coffee House, Pennine Platform, Brando's Hat, Poetry Nottingham, Psychopoetica and other magazines and anthologies.

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