PIERROT, PUNT AND PREVIEW

These pictures – one a still from Knots, the other my most recent study in pastel – and this partial verse are by way of a ‘trailer’ for a forthcoming short film.

A punt was all part of the myth
And the miming had moment and pith
And a flow to beguile
Artifice Style
After all I was Pierrot, not Smith.

I did without water, a punt and a pole
Imagination floats such a role
But then came a crisis
A punt on the Isis
And an actual pole to control …