Leaf Obeying its dynamics, one leaf falls, more side-to-side than down, in front of me. A memory; each leaf you catch, you earn one day of good luck in the coming year. Instinctively, my right hand snatches, misses, my left hand snaps, grabs it the second go. It’s like a paper heart, the palest yellow … Continue reading Two poems by Mark Totterdell
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Two poems by Richard Price
A stepladder in a white room A stepladder in a white room – the beginning of an alphabet. That was… forty years ago. That was twenty years ago. That was tomorrow was it? … Continue reading Two poems by Richard Price
Two poems by Richie McCaffery
Legend The cricket club is a cow-field away from our house, yet local lore says a cricket ball knocked so far for six in the 1950s smashed one of our bay windows. I can’t say if the ball was returned, if it even crossed the players’ minds that evening in the pub, of someone … Continue reading Two poems by Richie McCaffery
Two poems by David Kennedy
Two new poems by David Kennedy from a project on Cézanne Cézanne – The Card Players (1892-5, 1894-5) I – (1892-5) Slowed to two frames a second, a present moment where a wonky, red-clay table glows with more life than two men, volumes as much as figures, old pinhead with giant’s knees vs. more … Continue reading Two poems by David Kennedy
Two poems by Andrew Forster
Power The last time the electricity failed, we watched through the window in settling dusk as vans rumbled into the field next door and workers in yellow tunics gathered by the telegraph pole like pilgrims. Floodlights, like artificial moons, cast the grass in a white sheen. One worker shimmied up, others rapt beneath, mumbling … Continue reading Two poems by Andrew Forster
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