Short Beasts – Short Beasts Flash Fiction Literary Magazine
Short Beasts – Short Beasts Flash Fiction Literary Magazine
Description: A Decent Cuppa makes me Happy
A few years ago I visited an exhibition of Victorian painting at the Royal Academy in London. The painting, The Entomologists’s Dream , 1909, by Edmund Dulac inspired me to write a prose poem. I was so struck by the devastation on the butterfly collector’s face that I felt compelled to create his back story. Although I didn’t know it at the time, Dulac’s original painting was an illustration for a tragic love story.
This work is an illustration for Le Papillon Rouge (the red butterfly) by Gerard d’Houvillehe. The tale explores the supernatural potential of dreams and the hallucinatory power of a moonlit night.
My poem is a riff on the powerful and sometimes devastating effect of dreams, and last month I got the delightful news that it had been shortlisted in the Fiction Factory poetry competition. The judge was none other than my tutor from Jericho Writers, Helen Cox. The competition was judged blind so she got a (I hope) nice surprise when she discovered I was the author. I hope you enjoy the poem! In the end I felt sorry for the collector, after all, he was only trying to capture the transitory beauty of butter
Short Beasts – Short Beasts Flash Fiction Literary Magazine
Short Beasts – Short Beasts Flash Fiction Literary Magazine