What Rain Taught Us by Gail Ashton Ira Lightman of exhibits in a number

of exhibits in a number of museums

and its sense of transcendence

with pared down imagery and crystal sharp language

straying from the known routes into the borderlands between the human

‘Like a bird picking over / the September lawn

What Rain Taught Us by Gail Ashton Ira Lightman of exhibits in a numberWhat rain taught us follows a mind fracturing into a subjective landscape of association, eflection and invention, where words, images, and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction. But, gradually, islands of stability form Intimate, disturbing and touching, this collection offers an insight into mental illness as heartbreaking as Unica Zurns The Man of Jasmine or Leonora Carringtons Down Below, and combines writing that