Image
Above the prim white blouse
and the navy blue padded shoulders
of your executive suit,
in your eyes, there's a look:
slightly dangerous, almost dirty;
like that parlour,
where the bald man
with a stainless steel ring
hanging between his nostrils
took up the singing needle,
tattooed an image,
something eastern or tribal,
on the small of your back, perhaps.
and the navy blue padded shoulders
of your executive suit,
in your eyes, there's a look:
slightly dangerous, almost dirty;
like that parlour,
where the bald man
with a stainless steel ring
hanging between his nostrils
took up the singing needle,
tattooed an image,
something eastern or tribal,
on the small of your back, perhaps.
Derek Adams is a photographer and helps to organise the Essex Poetry Festival. His first collection, Measuring the Volume of an Elephant, is published by Hole Books in Summer 2004.
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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