Rosie Hadden
The tall man brought with him a stone house,
a red horse, two black dogs. He did not know
she’d been painting him in gouache and gold leaf
long before he met her. She’d conjured him
when her hearth was empty and the moon dark.
Placed him on a sea in a small wooden boat.
At other times she’d painted him walking towards her,
the horse and dogs following behind.
His eyes were always closed.
He wore a mantle of starling’s feathers
although he was no poet, angel or king.
Rosie Hadden won the Teignmouth Open Competition in 2022 and was Highly Commended in the Rialto Nature & Place Competition 2023. Her work has appeared in Ink, Sweat &Tears, A New Ulster, Art.earth, Orbis, Modron, The Hovel Press and Fal Publications. She is Chair of Falmouth Poetry Group.
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