Sail away -

"Into the Net"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles
and milly befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which ran sideways while blowing bubbles
and may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea ..."
- e e cummings

Illustration Friday: Wrapped -

"Wrapped"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... old roses, heads still high,
wrapped in sunbeams
of an afternoon sky ..."

Where does the time go -

"Waving Goodbye to May"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... with slight heaviness of heart,
a lowing, slight mourning,
to passing bud and bloom,
she waves her darling away,
catching the scent of summer,
a warm romance yet to come ..."

Illustration Friday: Soar -

"Take Me Higher"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"...sweet baby, take me down,
it's what we came here for,
if Heaven feels like this,
sweet darlin', let me soar..."