Gweneira The cards flock her windowsill open-mouthed; sing of one hundred years’ turning. She flips the white sheet back with a fairytale number collects family, in groups, spangling the hospital ward. Her blue eyes hold a watery gaze. You’ll have to come and see me. In drifts, she was born. Over the next … Continue reading Two Poems by Suzanne Iuppa
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‘The Sandstorm in the Locket’ by Christopher James
It opened with a gasp, as if it had been holding its breath. Hot to the touch, it was a silver keepsake; a swollen tear my grandfather kept close to his chest in the Western Desert. The clasp undone, I felt a blast of heat, grit in my eye, then all the sand … Continue reading ‘The Sandstorm in the Locket’ by Christopher James
Two Poems by Rosie Miles
Bench for Kate Etheridge Every now and then I sit for a while with your wood and grain and bole. I place my finger in the words that say this was from all of us and think about the pulse that thumped your head until no one could take away the pain. You’ve … Continue reading Two Poems by Rosie Miles
Two Poems by Liz Lefroy
Beethoven Haus, Bonn His home is as his mother might’ve kept it – tidied up, waiting. House of a thousand notes and sorrows, he’s already left. He’ll not be back from Vienna this time, and she’s long dead. We find it serious – oil portraits, creaking boards, shuttered windows, facsimile scores behind glass, … Continue reading Two Poems by Liz Lefroy
Two Poems by Purabi Bhattacharya
Then I was not the antagonist in your fiction Pine needles. The hill breeze. Take me home. It is winter and this has been a while. This silly disorder- nostalgia On a plateau purple peppered, mountain harebell stare; I remember brushing with my finger on a canvas as catholic as the … Continue reading Two Poems by Purabi Bhattacharya
Two poems by Adam Warne
Never Force Them to Swim The boy was a rat which is why I loved him, the third of three vermin born to an x-ray technician. Always short of breath, twitching his nose, climbing and chewing on ropes, he worked without success at Boots until he bit the manager and had to move … Continue reading Two poems by Adam Warne
‘Semiotics’ by Kirsten Luckins
Are they sequins, Isadora? Those unfocussed glints, and your head flung back punt-drunk and cushioned on the swell, swell. Your fingers, willow-limp and lax on the spine of your paperback Ways Of Seeing. [Sunlight … Continue reading ‘Semiotics’ by Kirsten Luckins
Two Poems by Laura Scott
To be one of them To be a link in that necklace of sisters, to flit between them and forget sometimes which one I am, the oldest, or the youngest, or the one in between. To slide into their space and find my way into the room they spend so much time in … Continue reading Two Poems by Laura Scott
Two Poems by Christopher Lanyon
hug each other at the end of the day, and at the same time check after 'Like any other girl' by Jenna Clake for aches twists knotted skin the afternoon is long and lonely full of opportunities to hurt in the evening let’s sit out under the last empty planes with a tin … Continue reading Two Poems by Christopher Lanyon
Two Poems by Vicky Morris
Lounge The nurse says they should’ve given me a line-in the first time, straight to my heart. Now the veins in my arm grow hard. FEC chemo is the worst, she says. We’ll sort it for next time. Then you won’t have me here again. She smiles, meaning there’ll be no more need to … Continue reading Two Poems by Vicky Morris
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