*Passing of the Artist* /for Veronica/ You promised to return as a seagull. Why not? While not entirely welcomed, you will be allowed to get away with modern public art and muggings. Your relatives have decorated many a town centre and harbour wall. Once, a great aunt sat on a lamp post took perfect aim and shat on my head. Or the summer a distant cousin ambushed a waiter at the station café and swallowed a croissant whole while I just watched and wondered. That must have been you on Thursday over lunch in Piazza Terracina, making off with my banana bread. © Clare Bryden

Herring gull on a green post. Photo credit: Doncoombez on Unsplash.

Many thanks to Pulsebeat Poetry Journal for publishing my poem celebrating the artist Veronica Gosling, 10 May 1931 – 20 November 2025

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