The Snail

The Snail

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

I saw a snail

The day is filled with color

Palace of the Dead

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

Illustration description: A cloudy sky in shades of green, blue, pink, and red. The sun appears in the top left corner, seemingly close enough to be in front of the clouds and visible in all its orange and yellow, fiery, solar flares glory. Despite this, the entire scene feels shadowy, glowing with a sinister internal light more than sunlit. The sun is partially obscured by the ruins of a Greek Byzantine temple, which stretches across the left side of the image to the center left. A gigantic, transparent skull occupies the top right, seemingly observing a giant, brown snail in the bottom right, seemingly crawling away from the stairs of the ruin. The haiku sits top and center in white “Rosewood Std Regular” font.

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Robyn MacKinnon

I am mostly a visual artist, but I like to create "found poetry", specifically daily haiku made from the statuses of my Facebook friends. It was my Mom who started this, and officially passed the responsibility onto me when she became too busy.

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