Pat Winslow
Baggage
I'm packing myself away, folding myself into clipped consonants.
I'm tightening my grin against the weather, the sudden grey of arrival.
Everyone looks so grim and bear it, so thickly socked and guarded.
It's their bottle greens and navy blues. England is so buttoned up.
I'm five a.m. Sand and dust and cactus wrens.
The sun is rising above the saguaros, striking the side of A Mountain.
Again and again, the crisp T interrupts: security alert british airways
a quarter past two gate forty three. Like a purse snapping shut.
The Thames whine miaows from mouth to mouth.
Tabloids open and close, open and close.
Another landscape is hurtling towards me. I click into place,
remember to look from left to right and left again.
The Pennines rise swiftly then disappear. I'm late evening,
folded away, neat as a two-piece suit, and wearing grey for survival.
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