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Pictures are Kissing with Words

  • Writer: Lippy
    Lippy
  • Dec 14, 2025
  • 1 min read

Far off, a flying stone’s throw from 

the burrowed hill we stand on,

paint is eating paint

and picture is kissing with words


There are colours in slump and 

glassy glosses turning on eachother,

making new colours: brown and orange

Synecdoche is kissing with a tower


Pink striped with a dull impasto white

is rolling on down the hill

like children in May

A portrait of a grey veiled lady is kissing with with


whilst the words in a tangle of hands and feet

are coated in the soot of dry plastic acrylic

limbs - as limbs - are sifted fluorescent green

And the picture of us slides its hands towards poem












Words and artwork by Molly Clarke, she/her


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Jan 05

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