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Red scarecrow girl/a slip of a thing/this hollow dried out twig of a thing,
blackbird eyes darting like a Don’t Look Now vision/object of derision
caught her on CCTV/this hint of a thing/shivering skin-and-bone stick of a thing
rattling about in a size ten coat, ten sizes too big for her frame.
This man/this guard/this brick of a thing/this thick-skinned/hard-nosed prick of a thing,
sausage pink fingers came right up behind her, grabbed her shoulder
like porcelain china/such a fragile delicate chip of a thing.
The room where they took her/a pit of a thing/windowless/nowhere to sit of a thing,
they poked and they prodded and picked at the girl/said they’d call the police
and tell all the world what a low-down/uncivilised trick of a thing and she shook.
This creature/this bird/this wishbone-thin little flit of a thing/featherless/
fatherless spit of a thing she blanked all the voices and fingers and pointing she left them
all there with their out-of-nose jointing and flew from the room through the back of her
mind this practically invisible/wholly derisible/breakable/shakable/bit of a thing.
Poems for this issue were selected by Katherine Gallagher
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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