Feckless Sometimes it makes him angry, this dying, and I keep doing things wrong, forget to soften the stars with almond milk before I bring them to his bedside on a saucer, buy the wrong kind of green tea, the wrong kind of holy water from the village shop. He says there are things that … Continue reading Three poems by Gaia Holmes
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Three poems by Nafeesa Hamid
Shades of woman She tells me I look like sex tonight. Really, you do, can’t you see it? And when I look down I do see; I see my breasts plump and hairless flung out of my sex dress like sleeping strays. I know this body is woman. This body is power; awake, alive. Paint … Continue reading Three poems by Nafeesa Hamid
Two poems by Richie McCaffery
Two poems from Passport, Nine Arches Press Double Dutch i. In Catholic Belgium, the norm is to have a crucifix hanging in every classroom. Ours is broken and lies in bits. It looks like a gun someone has been ordered to surrender. No one mentions it. I’m the one person in my class not fleeing … Continue reading Two poems by Richie McCaffery
Two poems by Robert Peake
Letter to the Last Megafauna My friends, you wouldn’t like it here, moss squelching underfoot, lean drizzle tickling your rivulets, bare trees. We’d give you names like Babar, Dumbo, Topsy, then shackle your legs for safety (ours), parade you in a car for entertainment (ours). Everywhere we go (archaeology shows) the giants disappear – save … Continue reading Two poems by Robert Peake
Two poems by Wendy French
This Way or That peregrine falcons dived round our heads that time we climbed Snowdon my mother’s voice from the middle of the night Remember to feed your father in the kitchen - sleep well her voice comes in … Continue reading Two poems by Wendy French
Two poems by Deborah Alma
Morning Song An open-windowed church-belled morning chimes of loss and mine; water pipes sing, and I bring back to bed a blue enamel pot of hot coffee, as silk as the slide of skin on sheets, and rough hot bread warmed in an oven kept in overnight and bite into a grape and lazy eyed … Continue reading Two poems by Deborah Alma
From a Lyric Sequence by Cat Woodward
But now I have put away the pepper and dirt and have a mouth all full of big yellow teeth when I was banished I spoke like the banished my, my, my, gardenia and gladioli now it rains, rains and rains like wheat in a wreath * lingers his hyacinth picking up what i put … Continue reading From a Lyric Sequence by Cat Woodward
Two poems by Sarah Hymas
Whale-boned Corset and Other Relics How I loved the net flaring around my thighs, blue smocking smoky organza into fingertip deep slots of mussel black nibbling my chest. The power of an unscrutinised body. I was the dress. And so, the loch biting my arms as I exalt its sting of marbled August, cutting my … Continue reading Two poems by Sarah Hymas
Two poems by Hannah Linden
The Cottage in the Wood Be careful of the stories you keep, my mother said. Peel back their metaphors and check under their skins before you put them into your basket. Mother forgets, sometimes, the basket, the tightness of its weave, how big its handle. Life was simpler under lamp-posts. It's hard to remember when … Continue reading Two poems by Hannah Linden
Three poems by Sarah Crewe
25B the bear’s leg scorched a bronze bolt on black fur too close yr grandaughter’s heart reduced to menthol cinders scented jumpers chanel factoids &breathe standing in the shadow of a yellow fiesta for anti-climb read anti cry read … Continue reading Three poems by Sarah Crewe
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