Synkroniciti is excited to introduce poet and visual artist Michele Noble, born in London, with “Bone Song,” an exploration of mortality through the contemplation of a shapely bird bone found in the mud. “I lifted it light as a sigh/ on the palm of my hand,/ listened to the lilt of its song./ lamenting/ muscles and ligaments/ that gave it movement.” Michele’s rhythm is complex and elastic, iambs, anapests and dactyls dancing with clear intention and supple music. Tension is created by the masterful combination of triple and duple feet, giving the impression that there is something barely contained and breaking free below the surface. The juxtaposition of this alternation of rhythm with repetition is particularly satisfying: “it had no value except to me/ except to me loving/ the feel of it.” There is sadness here, but there is also delight and gratitude in the possibility of being, as well as reverence for what is gone and what remains.
Read “Bone Song” in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
My name is Michele Noble. I was born in wartime London. My father was away at war but he gave me a touch of blarney, the gift of the gab and my goofy teeth. Sadly I didn’t inherit my mother’s looks!
My schooling was wonderful and I was lucky to be introduced to great literature and art at an early age. I trained as a visual artist and still show pictures but I have always devoured books. I seriously began to write about 2007. Now I’m an old crone I’m working towards my first collection: Poetry memoirs about my life and times, comic and tragic, the characters I’ve met, and how the world has changed since I was born in 1943.