Yellow Man The last time I saw you out of bed you were searching for fossils, two hundred million years of them - older than the stone they were found in. We were half the sum of each other, the weight of your footprints lessening as bones began to surface and the distance grew in … Continue reading ‘Yellow Man’ by Dan Stathers
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A poem by Rebecca Bird
Progression I from the bedroom, he sees a brigade of snow V through a streetlamp’s mottled brights, a cheap party moon that hangs in the streamers and calls it winter. Warm in a marriage bed, blankets clamouring like ancient choirs, he thinks of cinnamon drinks, white-capped cars, IV and not of the boy … Continue reading A poem by Rebecca Bird
Two poems by Emma Lee
Photographing a Ghost Our daughter angles the camera lens to get the whole house in the shot. Fourteen years ago, I took the same photo, ignoring your focus on the experience rather than the need to record it. Now you’re unable to watch her look at the photos her mother took, reach out and … Continue reading Two poems by Emma Lee