icarus breathes
flight
is explosive
breaking
sound
i trim my wings
tight
to this body. take it
circling
a world. i’ll skim
waves
& settle
grow fins
a while & fly
with dolphins
(previously unpublished)
Reuben Woolley has been published in various magazines including Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House, Domestic Cherry, The Stare’s Nest and Ink Sweat and Tears. His collection, the king is dead, was published in 2014 by Oneiros Books and a chapbook, dying notes, with Erbacce Press in 2015. A new collection on the refugee crisis, skins, was published by Hesterglock Press in 2016. @ReubenWoolley
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