Liane Strauss
Coup de Foudre
peu après Laforgue
When the bolt struck I did not rush to the window
to see the bystander’s hair unmanned and helpless,
the Galapagos of upturned turtles,
the avenue’s implacable black buckle,
river and rise, rowboats at rooflines,
the eggs of inspiration agape beside
the broken-winged bindings of consummation,
the apocalypse sprung full-blown from the word.
When the blind light came out of that nowhere
like an original thought, startling and unlikely,
shaken out of the sky like foreign money
into the grass among the table crumbs
I sat here unreading the same sentence
in which I’d found the letters of your name.
Liane Strauss’ poems have appeared in various magazines here and in the USA. A selection of her work is included in the forthcoming anthology, The Like Of It (Baring and Rogerson 2005).
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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