The urgency of our times and the dearth of hours in the studio while I was home with my children during Covid prompted me to begin writing poetry. I wrote the first poems as a response to some portraits I had painted, and, although I’m back in the studio now, I continue to write.
–-Jamie Romanet
Storm whispered
in six berries a tender
September rain
Under a waning
winter moon
the last leaf trembles
Moonstones echo
oceans depth and your face
sails back to me
Anniversary
Your golden harden rock,
your burnt ghost flames.
For 13 years a soothing fog drags
beside the lapping wave.
Gentle married lovers
moored at the cliffs edge.
Swell
You have to feel the swell change
John told Joan
I was out of my depth
A typewriter unwinds a black tulip,
a common prayer,
and clay pieces flawlessly assembled in a line.
A fresh voice
that feels about pain
knows where it is
and a love song
to remember what it is
to be me
About the Author: Jamie Romanet is an American painter living in France. She has had poems published in Peripheries Journal (5) and Caesura Magazine. She is represented by Municipal Bonds Gallery in San Francisco.
If you would like to submit poems to be considered for publication at Two Coats of Paint, please send them to Twocoatsofpaint@gmail.com with POETRY in subject line. We look forward to reading.
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