\nthan the trunk
\nof a human skeleton ? <\/em><\/p>\n
But look
\nhere is the four armed cross
\nthe breath of the glassblower,
\nthe ceramicist, ironmonger<\/p>\n
Here is work, long as the prayers
\nof a Bavarian priest<\/p>\n
Here are the trees that grow in the nave \u00a9 Frankie McMillan<\/p>\n Reproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Artist: Nichola Shanley<\/p><\/div>\n Last Thursday, I was delighted to attend the launch of Frankie McMillan’s second poetry collection, There are no horses in heaven<\/em><\/strong>, published by Canterbury University Press. Cathedral of the Poor, <\/em>which I first featured on May 21 2013 <\/a>as part of he \u2018poetry in response to a work of art\u2019 (aka \u2018ekphrastic) Tuesday series, is included in the new collection so it seemed the right time to refeature it again.<\/p>\n Last week, as guest editor on the Tuesday Poem Hub, I highlighted more of Frankie’s poems, which have been described as “surreal”, “faux-naif” and “full of surprises that quicken the heart as well as the head.”<\/p>\n To check out the feature, click on:<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cathedral of the Poor Gaudi watches his father tend bees, draws the shape of hives, the pillars of Sagrada Familia smoke pours from a wooden box, his father rises around his neck are baubles seeds from the magnolia tree Is there any better structure than the trunk of a human skeleton ? But look here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28564,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions\/28564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe helicoid columns
\nthe bees in his father\u2019s hair
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Artist:](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NoHorsesCover-188x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Tuesday Poem Hub: Frankie McMillan<\/a><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n