Cathy Bolton
Sporting Pals
From Weetabix to Horlicks
we're rarely apart. We share
an eclectic taste in music,
sporting trivia of all denominations.
I follow him about the house,
treading fluxing interest rates
and slightly stale one-liners
into stain resistant carpet.
His wife calls me the shadow,
his siamese twin; threatens
to unsplice the arteries
that feed us to each other.
My telescopic halo channels
tongues of all persuasions.
I bring him enlightenment;
the gift of transmission.
In the static between World at One
and rain-stumped Test matches,
his feet discover Jazz FM;
the joy of improvisation.
I am his right hand man -
he reaches for me in dreams,
my cat's eye sparks in the dark,
simmering; a familiar
she cannot substitute
with toilet water and cold creams.
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