Lyn Moir
Kraków Christmas (before Spielherg)
The trumpeter's sweet arrow
shrills through the frozen air, each
hour on the hour, to be shot
himself in turn, mid-note, the
icicle of death piercing
his warning repeatedly.
In monochrome five nuns glide
towards the tram stop, heads bowed,
waterfowl against the storm.
The driving snow slices through
their habits as they wait, still,
heads bowed as in prayer, cursing
prevailing winds from the east.
The only indicator
a wrought-iron fence, menorah
form repeated endlessly,
black against coal-crusted snow,
a street echoes ceaselessly
with mute cries of the hunted.
And everywhere amber: hot
gold honey trapping idle
dreams, framing them in silver,
seeds, flies, preserved in resin,
prehistoric candlelight
warming the eyes of freezing
strangers, pacing the market.
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