Emma-Jane Arkady
Kirkby's Flowers
[It is important to pronounce this correctly.
Kirk sounds like care, by like the bi of bit.
Go on, say it then]
has an acre, seed-drilled with Field Scabious,
Nettle-Leaved Beliflower, Knapweed;
kids on a moped that goes:
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
[irritating, isn’t it?]
at probably only twenty as it’s been knackered
[before or after blagging?]
this git in Nike and his twelve-year-old
scrubber feeling up the top
of his legs as he swerves to avoid
avoiding us - a civilised
party from
the-down-the-road-you’d-never-expect-it-here
National Wildflower Centre, out
collecting in sensible shoes
[it should be observed at this point
that lattice towers at each end of the field drape
twenty-five-Ky wires: buzz, buzz] all
with correctly sized biodegradable
bags with permission for wildflower seeds.
Weeeeeeee/ eee/ eee/ eeeeeee
along the long hedge on the back side
of happiness, barbed
up wire on the shed-edge,
spikes on rotators,
gits at The Parrot -
weeds?
[the best side of Kirkby?]
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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