No 26 - Summer 2003 contents of this issue bibliographic notice other issues online about this magazine search other magazines Jonathan Wonham The life model She grows old through staring out of the window at the half-lidded eyes of the windows opposite, or at the sea, the sea as it was in the beginning, or at the empty road, the almost empty train. She has posed so often the light seems to bleach her, his clumsy brushstrokes patching her with shadow. On canvas she’s thinner, more shapely, wherever she stands, she stands there thirty years ago. Slowly, the emptying train disappears for the suburb pulling its distant thread through her patient eye. Jonathan Wonham lives in Aberdeen where he works as a geologist. He was a contributor to Poetry Introduction 7 (Faber 1990). page(s) 61   Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery