naming the stones
The Man Who Was All Shadow
Performed and produced by ‘Brilliant Fish’
The man who was all shadow
could only be seen when the sun shone
for half the year he was completely invisible
passers-by felt the ghost of his skin
imagined a whisper
sometimes in the solitary heart of a winter’s day
he’d leap out from his lacuna and hurl
himself weightless body and soul
against them
craving a touch
a moment’s hesitation
but of course they kept right on walking
oblivious, distracted,
by anything no matter
how inconsequential
still more substantial
than the all-shadow man.…