Girl in a Borrowed Cloak in Lonesome October Lit

‘Girl in a Borrowed Cloak’ was written for the 10Days project and was displayed for a while in Winchester Cathedral (see below). I am so pleased it has found a strange and lovely home at Lonesome October Lit.

I don’t really know in which genre it’s written. It is both a prose poem and flash fiction, depending on your point of view. I have written a lot of these ‘Girl’ pieces and a few of them have been published. I originally intended this girl to be a refugee lost in another world where the perceived brightness is hard and misleading. I have also written quite a horrific biography to fit the site. At least, I think it is horrific.

The inspiration for the poem was Lucy Ash’s fabulous painting, Carbon. You can just make out the poem on a stand to the right, in the picture below. The tomb is a cadaver tomb of Bishop Gardiner. It is quite gruesome.

I have written a little more about the piece in an earlier post.