Leni Dipple
left-handed
I was in the kitchen cooking quiche
gross feeders circling all around me.
Dear Lorca was lying open on my table
with his lemons and oranges piled high
by the sink. I picked up my knife,
I’d been doing the onions, cut a slice
of lemon and ran it down the blade -
acid on steel takes the taint away.
Then I cradled the tin and cut through
the limp pastry. Its floury folds fell away
from the rim.
Singing lullabies to Lorca, I dance
in my kitchen, stave off my hunger
for delicate forms. What shall I do
with the remaining pastry? There’s
enough left over for something sweet.
Roll it up and bake it, fill it with fruit,
sprinkle with sugar and tonight for a
treat I’ll rise with the moon as it turns
to honey. Just behind my left shoulder,
discrete.
Page(s) 13
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