Cathy Bolton
Crush
I find reasons to visit the library:
seventy page statutes to photocopy,
Australian law journals to browse.
Swap Silk for Navy Cut,
even try to roll my own.
Read The Well of Loneliness,
the complete works of Virginia Woolf;
searching for clues that will
guide me home to you.
Learn not to snigger about opera,
care less about the Soaps.
Toy with perfume. Floss my teeth.
Come off the pill. Hang out
in the underground coffee bar
with the goths and metal freaks.
Scald my tongue and trembling
hands on milkless coffee.
Burst tight skinned words
in your laughter sharp eyes.
Let you work the bellows
of my heart like a frenzied
bag-pipe: calling for blood,
the burning of scriptures.
Wonder does it show: the fizz
of uncorked spring in my stride,
the way my sap happy body
leans into your heat?
seventy page statutes to photocopy,
Australian law journals to browse.
Swap Silk for Navy Cut,
even try to roll my own.
Read The Well of Loneliness,
the complete works of Virginia Woolf;
searching for clues that will
guide me home to you.
Learn not to snigger about opera,
care less about the Soaps.
Toy with perfume. Floss my teeth.
Come off the pill. Hang out
in the underground coffee bar
with the goths and metal freaks.
Scald my tongue and trembling
hands on milkless coffee.
Burst tight skinned words
in your laughter sharp eyes.
Let you work the bellows
of my heart like a frenzied
bag-pipe: calling for blood,
the burning of scriptures.
Wonder does it show: the fizz
of uncorked spring in my stride,
the way my sap happy body
leans into your heat?
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