(collaboration)
individual sacrificial collective
nouns to name a one
this one, that
as the flood of words wash
through closed lips
you intent on stillness, resistance
wrapping silence in the dense
volumetrics of much
and more
when the moment is lost
to the birth and delivery
of ribbled nodes
I scrape the trip from beneath pink nails
you ignore the motion, focus instead
on sweetness, dank rotting green
the intensity of finding ones roots
ones roots buried deep
he says your country has no culture
this was never the case
this was never the way you felt it as a child
in you I dream a wakening
sap pollen stem you lie,
star-studded
curiosity
reflecting distance
gashed memories secreting truth
star studded for sure
curiosity secreting truth
beneath it beneath nothing in this
nothing in this...
diary to be raging in the outward drawer
of mahogany
with pen to quill of past trusting
similar it seems to fragility of wings
or possibility no problem
or velvet labels better at seeing something
helpful to be useful in their service
sacrificing it was here, I promise you it was here
I was there, we were there
inside the water
over the water
individual
one's roots buried deep
addictive upon which
it stands or perhaps
handmade uplifting
throughout wicca or hemp
mislaid batons
handmade of the virgin
detail to be enunciated
swords of every metal
wand unyielding
feted traveller
pentacles and cups
rotting flowers compost
uniform earth belongs to no one
but meagre stepping lords
now to float flawed at gun point
gasping medals gifted
they aim for bombed out subways
slant fever persistent ferrying
licensed backpacks
cupboards inside suitcases
sincere fluidity marked
sun-kissed avery swarmed
blankly docked hiding
a lizards head
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- 10th Muse
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
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- 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