Artwork © Robert Fleming

 

A Child’s View

It’s a child’s view of winter,
a comfortable child’s view
of Christmas-card victoriana
with no dark side visible,
only the bright side allowed.

So there’s no smoke pollution
and no hungry children
running, ragged
and barefoot
in rubbish strewn streets.

Only the bright side is allowed
in the Christmas card winter
that still we wait for.

 

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award.

Robert Fleming is a gay-man, word-artist, and scientist born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada who emigrated to Lewes, Delaware, United States. Robert follows his mother as a visual artist and his grandfather as a poet. In 1986 he published the second psychological research study on gay men’s response to AIDS in United States. Then, in the 1990s he was a contributing member of the District of Columbia’s Triangle Artist group. Now Robert is a founding member and contributing editor of Devil’s Party Press’ Old Scratch Press.