Seven years. Imprisoned. Scintillant across the wall, glimpses of desire. The nights that shall become the days that were. The ivy branch. Each Summer spent at Kelmscott Manor. As tides turn, Hades in Winter. The taste of pomegranate upon her lips. Fatal memory of the vine. Blue eyes, another realm. Come back to the light, sweet Proserpine.
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Notes: The story focuses on the Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting, ‘Proserpine’. There is a version of it at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. I visited the art gallery on a regular basis in my lunch hour when I worked in the city centre in the early 1990s. I miss seeing this painting.
‘I Know That Now But I Didn’t Know That Then‘ by Paul Busst is a collection of tales of the diminutive published by Phantom Page and is available in paperback.
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