Anna Kibbey
when holding a pair of secateurs, so why
do I prune with so little conviction, plant
bulbs with no faith they’ll come to anything?
Only the green tongues of the young
tulips know nothing of frost, babbling
like toddlers in a nursing home.
Anna Kibbey is a second-year MA student at The Poetry School. Her work has been published in magazines and journals in the US and UK. She lives in south London.
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