healingwords: poetry for the soul

This manhole cover was one of a number topping hidden water pipes in the campo near the river bed. Each cast iron cover had different patterns, part of a rich history of decoration visible on municipal iron elements around the village. This one reminded me of people at prayer. In a region blighted by drought and flood it is as well to pray to the water Gods.  © 2020 Jacqueline Knight Cotterill.  All rights reserved.  

This door knocker is on a door  in front of my house and an example of the hidden art in my Spanish village. The old house is used as a storage space and no one lives there. Since my grandson was a tiny baby in arms I have walked the four metres between the two doors and held him up to knock the hand. I love the detail of the ring and the ruffled sleeve and I wonder how many hands have held the cold metal over the generations that lived in the house.  © 2019 Jacqueline Knight Cotterill.  All rights reserved.