Body I saw my mother's heart today. She pressed up against the machine while, a few feet away I watched it load on the computer screen. Is that...? I asked. The radiologist immune to the novelty of inside views, nodded. I'd helped my mother get undressed, seen for the first time the vest she wore … Continue reading Three poems by Tania Hershman
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‘My Life as a Film’ by William Thirsk-Gaskill
It is shot in black and white, with subtitles and set aboard a German U-boat in World War Two, called U-214, nicknamed “The Berlin Bear”. The Captain downs shots of schnapps in every scene except when the boat is pursuing or being pursued. His exterior of brutality is a pretence and he secretly hates … Continue reading ‘My Life as a Film’ by William Thirsk-Gaskill
‘Crates’ by Jo Bell
Observe that when I speak of crates your mind provides one straight away. Likely you are thinking of the fruiterer’s crate: a shallow slatted box of rain-matted pine, the archetype of apples stencilled on the side, a cartouche slot above it for a grocer’s hand. Your crate may be the sturdy plastic tub of … Continue reading ‘Crates’ by Jo Bell
‘Honeymoon’ by Josephine Corcoran
I wouldn’t call it a honeymoon, those muffled nights in mothballed rooms. With cake in the boot we pilgrimmed north, taking a young marriage to old widows, my father’s brothers dead, their crucifixes still hanging. In each house we were given the double bed, my aunties inviting us to fornicate on concave mattresses containing … Continue reading ‘Honeymoon’ by Josephine Corcoran