Poems
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I Grew Up A Shadow Girl, With A Man Outlined Inside Me
By Madison Godfrey(Content warning: references self-harm)
When I was fifteen in a toilet cubicle next to Talia,
I exclaimed IT’S HERE with my school skirt skimming -
Donovan’s Glasses
By David Brooksafter Lewis Morely, ‘Donovan, musician, London’ (1965)
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The Portable Home
By Saba VasefiOnce, I went with the wolf to the desert
to take back honey from the bear
but in town my two eyes counted
only for one. At school -
‘and the angel of the lord appeared to him and said to him, "the lord is with you, O mighty man of valor"' [judges 6:12]
By Ali Whitelockher eyes are *blootered / swollen like the
plums that were not in the ice box / but kneedeep
by the river rotting in torrential scottish
rain / they were bruised & slimy / burst & oozing / -
in/sight
By Melinda SmithI see you, looking. You are breathing, a little
heavily. I see you, gazing, at the pooled shadow
in her collarbone; at her armpit, its intimate tuft.
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Snow Country
By David Brooksafter Spencer Finch, ‘56 Minutes (after Kawabata), Spring’ (2004)
A woman’s eye floated up before him. He almost called out... But he
had been dreaming, and when he came to himself, he saw that it was
only the reflection in the window of the girl opposite. Outside it was -
Magpies
By JoelisticsI dreamt I was a thousand feet tall and I could see all the way to Sydney
And I could smell the desperation and the fear and the excitement
And I was drunker than I’d ever been and had an endless supply of ciggies and I could flick away the satellites and blow kisses at the clouds.
I could step on all the pretty girls and squish them in the pavement … -
A TABLE IS A FLAT SURFACE WITH LEGS –––CE N’EST PAS UNE PIPE
By Ali Whitelock[The sighted woman asks the blind
man, how do you see beauty? The
blind man replies, In the same way
you close your eyes & imagine -
Double-You
By Melinda SmithThe O of her flashbulb, her
beehive (her eye, her ear).
A lenswoman.
A glow of white t-shirt, bright -
habitus
By Melinda Smitha hand spread on a hand -
starfish meat on starfish meat
in the old wide belly of the sea.
breathe. life is very long. -
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Minerva
By Saba VasefiMy daughter's pencil case
Is full of my future.
As if they were my dreams, -
Framed by faded things
By JoelisticsYou know when you are looking at a stranger and
both your eyes interlock and neither of you looks away
and then after a time you're not sure
exactly how long you been staring at them for. -
Akimbo
By Melinda SmithI came to your image pool, seeking. I stood
at the lip. I gazed, and dipped, and snapped,
and bore away with me a woman, in a wardrobe,
in a white bra and panties, a pie plate eclipsing -
Segregation
By Saba VasefiWe weren’t supposed to return—
No way to gather up again
The kiss that fell from our chapped
Lips as we fled. -