Deborah Tyler-Bennett
Marischal anthropology collection, Aberdeen
Braided Mongolian hasp,
Ethiopian jade-stamped silver clasp -
anything that makes the home crowd gasp.
Desire to please. Grasp
Buddha’s dimpled lip-curve.
Centuries on, inheritors still
Unpacking: Crane’s-bill
embroidered Chinese shoes
(which hold no clues
they’re meant for adult feet, rose
budded boats to damage baby toes),
Inuit seal-intestine anorak,
unfolding piss-hued paper kayak.
Osiris, Isis, Rama, beak-jawed Set,
Spanish Madonna’s crusted jet…
Kali, non-domestic, hearth
warming Bee, mirth
rocked. I coveted carved caribou
(thumb-size ivory, bonsai antlers to die for).
Not sure
the grand tour’s over. Saw
through a shop’s fake Arabian slitty-
windows - hippy-designer couples clasping gritty
Sequoia dream-catchers, advice books (pretty
ropy) on Feng-Shui. Rainy granite city
seldom welcomes sun gods. Pity
the Indonesian puppet I just bought pays shitty
wages to the maker.
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- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
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- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
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- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
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- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
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- Orbis
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- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
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- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
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- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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- Shearsman
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- Staple
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