Elizabeth Omega
It's glass but
underneath she sees
a dark ling sky, rounding up its storm.
A golden ground where still sun shag grass blows over,
curve, and blows. And a road, leading to a gate.
And it's a door to us, and yet
a breath of Elbrus, pure and thin.
Rake those splinters, they are that rocky,
it is that face, slate and spike, dark
ridge, ledge.
Riding in her car, she's shot
to pieces, out to heaven bright and
smoky as the violet evening stars. Shaking
blindly, forces, shooting bodies through the
piercing sky, so blind. So lunar, to the moon.
And we're just drinking
while she gasps herself in tractive cocktails.
Corday, cracking ice, a green part, a smooth part,
a slow long stroke of belter, topped with orange juice,
filling, pretty, hunger.
One apple is a winsome reservoir,
and she's so thirsty that
she drinks, she drinks.
Makes up, a swift
strawberry brush,
hard across the mouth,
as moist as man can make it.
Mirror one side is her pie face,
and over on the other
mesa, vannah, lover, horses running free.
Ford her, brook her, oak her, let her,
sleep,
and dream.
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The