The Liar I never believed in Father Christmas as I crawled out of the chimney, soot-stained, ingrained dust in the whorls of my skin. I never feared the dark, crawled under my bed, talking to dust, moulding it into imaginary friends. We sang together to the soil. Suspicious of prayers to invisible gods, I stared … Continue reading Two poems by Jessica Mookherjee
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Two poems by Laura McKee
rain cows do have best friends and become stressed if they are separated how do they know who their friends are really or if it’s going to rain but still they lie waiting bent at the knees (First published in Obsessed With Pipework, November 2014) A recording of Laura McKee reading 'Rain' … Continue reading Two poems by Laura McKee
‘Plait’ by Emma Simon
Plait The trick is to hold three braids in two hands and ignore the logistics of mornings. Wind the first over the second, then cross the third over the first, and so on. Don’t get cross with excessive fidgeting, or arguments slipping like hoarded minutes out of hand. Keep a zen-like calm in your fingers. … Continue reading ‘Plait’ by Emma Simon
Three poems by Marilyn Francis
Tilford I spent all afternoon watching (and not watching) from the shade of a Chinese parasol. My view of the spaced out white-on-green obscured by Riders of the Purple Sage. Lost in the Wild West, I missed the tip-toe run the fingertip fling, the smack of the ball into the blue, the backward leap, … Continue reading Three poems by Marilyn Francis
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