Talisman I don’t need an amulet around my neck, don’t need a jade bracelet upon my wrist, a twist of string, blessed around my shin. I don’t need onions or jasmine above my door, don’t need to live on the eighth floor of this apartment complex, could take the fourth bed on any … Continue reading Four poems by David Tait
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Two poems by Peter Daniels
Regulars Tonight we go through to the small back room hung with wrestling posters, plastic vegetables and salami. It's cosy here, warm at least, away from the street. Nearer the kitchen, source of heat, food and argument; nearer the toilets. Catch a lime-scented disinfectant that sanctifies the smell of drains. Up there on a ceiling … Continue reading Two poems by Peter Daniels
Two poems by Emily Blewitt
This Is Not a Rescue I want to tell you it will not be as you expect. For years you have hammered in stakes, handed men the rope and said consume me with fire. Most have run – one does not burn a witch lightly. This one is water. He’ll unbind you, take … Continue reading Two poems by Emily Blewitt
Two poems by Aki Schilz
The Fall I have clasped your edges so hard they leave grooves in my palms, deep as the grooves of horse-reins beneath the bridges on towpaths wasted with bracken and buddleia. These, and mine, cut across lifelines: a geometric interruption. * I cannot document dropping you on a sunlit day, startled by the … Continue reading Two poems by Aki Schilz
‘Stand in the Light’ by Elizabeth Rimmer
Stand in the Light Stand in the light. Allow the wild things to creep out of the shadows. Welcome them all, the wet bedraggled things, the ones all spit and claws, the one who weeps and hangs its head, the one who stares, and says ‘Make me.’ Stand in the light. They are yours, washed … Continue reading ‘Stand in the Light’ by Elizabeth Rimmer
Two poems by Mark Totterdell
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
Two poems by Daniel Sluman
Two poems from the terrible (Nine Arches Press) feeding the bed we haggle & haul each piece of furniture into the house throwing the songs from our past into the fire they crack like potassium at the foot of the bed with the fake lashes & … Continue reading Two poems by Daniel Sluman
‘Sibling Love’ by Kate Hendry
Sibling Love It's always when my back is turned. I'm at my desk – a hollow thump, palm on back, her echoing rib cage. I turn, grab my son's arms. I want him to confess. 'It was an accident,' he pleads. Always too late. I drag him down the hall, he's not yet dressed. 'I … Continue reading ‘Sibling Love’ by Kate Hendry
‘The poet in Samos’ by Richard Gwyn
The poet in Samos Here are the things you left behind: an old bus ticket to a place with an illegible name, a stack of government files from distinct regimes, a pile of rocks, a copy of Cavafy, well-thumbed. I don’t know how many meals you ate here, by the seaward window. I don’t know … Continue reading ‘The poet in Samos’ by Richard Gwyn
Two poems by Colin Will
Blame Dr Beeching Trains no longer ran on the branch line at the end of our road, and the station had burned down years before. So your threat to throw yourself off the footbridge was a gin-inspired gesture even I saw through. It was true, that after months of trying, I had given up on … Continue reading Two poems by Colin Will
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