South African poet Michelle McGrane created this poetry postcard using an excerpt from her prose poem, “A Weightless World,” on a photograph taken during a camel trek in the Sinai Desert in 1994.
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South African poet Michelle McGrane created this poetry postcard using an excerpt from her prose poem, “A Weightless World,” on a photograph taken during a camel trek in the Sinai Desert in 1994.
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11 comments in “weightless world”
October 21st, 2008 at 11:51 am
Absolutely stunning.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Jo used the adjective that first came to my mind too, just stunning. I can see this man with brown skin across the pale hours. You’re one of my faves, Michelle!
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Thanks so much, Jo and Christine. I thought it may not be arty enough.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 am
wonderful stuff michelle!
xxx
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 am
This is really beautiful — words and image.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Beautiful insight and images Michelle.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
[...] postcard and a prose poem I have a poetry postcard up at Postal Poetry, the brainchild of Dana Guthrie Martin and Dave Bonta. The postcard was created using an excerpt [...]
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
the desert is such a romantic yet harsh place, and this captures that so sensuously.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Makes me think of the nostalgic romance of The English Patient – love the detail of ‘acacia wood’.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Nice work, Michelle — full of dust and sand and cracked skin.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Glorious. Makes me want to be there, now.
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