Cath Nichols
Reckless Sleeper
(After the Reckless Sleeper by Magritte)
A man has lost his hat;
in sleep he finds an apple that
reminds him of a red bow that
his sister used to wear in her hair.
Then he sees his mother
holding out her hand,
but as he goes to take it
it becomes a mirror.
A bird flies past the window.
Curtains are drawn and candles lit.
It must be night,
or someone has died. He can’t see much.
His bed
has been made already.
He closes his eyes
in sleep he finds an apple that
reminds him of a red bow that
his sister used to wear in her hair.
Then he sees his mother
holding out her hand,
but as he goes to take it
it becomes a mirror.
A bird flies past the window.
Curtains are drawn and candles lit.
It must be night,
or someone has died. He can’t see much.
His bed
has been made already.
He closes his eyes
Page(s) 24
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