One Place Out here the elms echo with the eagle-shout and sparrow-cry; leaves tune the wind; the only path is the one your trespass cuts. Your car is waiting at the forest’s edge with autumn already falling on its roof. You bag and bury your mud clad-shoes before rejoining the nightly homeward grind, just … Continue reading A poem by Ben Parker
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A poem by Andrew Bailey
Thames Salmon Our findings highlight the futility of long-term stocking without corresponding improvements in habitat and water quality.* a healthy system means a healthy apex predator a salmon in the Thames lost and not delivered and it finds itself acclimatising here get the river right the fish will run the rest * Andrew M. … Continue reading A poem by Andrew Bailey
‘Degas Wants to Paint Me Ironing’ by Anna-May Laugher
Degas Wants to Paint Me Ironing He says it’s wonderful to watch me, I’ll just bet it is when I’m the one who’s working. He’s going to pay me, pay me to pretend and now that I’m pretending I have time to wonder how my ironing has changed. First with little flutters of the heart, … Continue reading ‘Degas Wants to Paint Me Ironing’ by Anna-May Laugher
A poem by Jude Cowan Montague
Morning Walk Five straggling mongrels moseyed through a sentence just to keep a tourist company . One spotted a frog, leapt into a ditch then there were four disreputable flea-bags lolling in and out of tongues, licking the nose of the lost English. One saw a cicada flew barking in the ether then there … Continue reading A poem by Jude Cowan Montague
‘Now Read On’ by John Glenday
Now Read On read something no one has ever written down the heartfelt lies the downright truths read all the gathered silences in the drop of ink that marks where this sentence ends and your life begins. John Glenday is the author of three collections of poetry. The most recent, Grain (Picador, 2009) … Continue reading ‘Now Read On’ by John Glenday
‘Giving up Mirrors’ by Susan Utting
Giving Up Mirrors Like giving up the time (take off your watch, unplug the glowing digits, let the chiming clock run down to silent) there will be things that catch you out. The whole world turns to glass and chrome, plays tricks with darkened screens, with windows day and night, … Continue reading ‘Giving up Mirrors’ by Susan Utting
A poem by Andres Rojas
Curiosity Of us, our eyes cameras by proxy, arms to reach and grasp, a voice to signal all is well or not, or rather was or wasn't fourteen minutes back, distance split by speed plus whatever time a circuit takes to process what is, parse it, make it make sense, or try, … Continue reading A poem by Andres Rojas
A poem by Bethany Pope
The Vixen in the Grass I absorbed something of her, my sister, Something other than blood, As I stood there staring By the side of the road. She took something of me In the breath of her dying; Some strong, invisible force From another world. I promised you a life of … Continue reading A poem by Bethany Pope
‘first the trees, now this’ by Ken Taylor
first the trees, now this shapes of leaves are trying to tell me something different than strata of latin or what might make me itch. they are stanzas to walk around in. the ovals send rumors over opposite walls. darker yellows seek wax. others – the sweet tones of a ’38 epiphone acoustic guitar, … Continue reading ‘first the trees, now this’ by Ken Taylor
A poem by Wendy Klein
A Short Manhattan Lullaby, 1939 after S. Olds I see them tarting themselves up for the party where they’ll meet; she post-divorce from her approved-of Jewish ex, and all set to become a successful playwright. I see her pucker up for the brightest lipstick, slip her feet into lethal stilettos, bat blackened eyelashes in … Continue reading A poem by Wendy Klein
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