Maureen Almond
Gob and claw
My precious babies,
no more than vesicular eruptions
in the mouth -
I’ve been wondering how to dispose of you
For months
I’ve been clipping away at you
shearing you right down to your skin
sharpening your horns
not knowing that your feet were so blistered
you couldn’t stand up on your own
Like your mother,
your gobs have got you into trouble
you’ve opened them too wide -
wide enough to put your feet in
Since it’s on fire,
I think this would be a good time
for a trip to the country,
come by -
my precious babies.
Maureen Almond lives on Teesside where she held a poetry residence in 2000/01 under the Year of the Artist. Her first full-length collection, Tailor Tacks, is published by Mudfog Press.
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
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- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
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- French Literary Review, The
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- Global Tapestry
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- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Magma
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- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
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- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
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- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
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- 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