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I hold this fragile sphereJLM Morton

JLM Morton — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:24:05 +0000

I hold this fragile sphere of earth and sit up on the long barrow to see myself a minuscule speck on the sphere at the end of the day at the end of the world and tell myself there could be more time and the waters of the Severn promise me they’ve always been [...]

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THE UNION OF LAUGHTER Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:36:11 +0000

First we laughed with prickly legs and stubble beards at police in polished riot vans. Then we laughed shivering like candles at the Prime Minister’s heated swimming pool. We carried our laughter like The Big Issue and hurled it at the Education Minister and his ten-thousand- pound Rolex. When they took our right to [...]

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WalrusIszi Jones

Iszi Jones — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:49 +0000

WALRUS It began in Scarborough, on New Year’s Eve, beside the sea The discarded boot perhaps, of some vagrant giant Washed up on smaller shores; Prised us open with ivory prongs Finding things we carried with us from afar Quite unaware. The wonderfully-worn-loved leather jacket I lost in Manchester in 1992 When I [...]

The Month of Emergencies – poemRebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:31 +0000

7.9 inches of rain fell in Central Park last night dead cicadas on the crosswalk their bodies bunched in brittle knots sticky candy sky bright with grief branches submerged by the weight of our silence a letter unread a door closed firmly & [...]

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Duino – poemPatrick Mackie

Patrick Mackie — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:27 +0000

Whether you can get there from here or wherever depends on whether you are there already, on whether you will find that you are already standing amidst the outspread hands of its stones, and their misty grey dawns, on whether indeed the arcs and folds of that sky really can make all location moot [...]

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Diver Overview – PoemSebastian Schloessingk

Sebastian Schloessingk — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The Great Barrier Reef diver/cameraman ‘cried in my mask’, to see the bleaching. Mankind is beginning to take creaky baby steps towards being able to live forever. Just when there’s no more forever to live in. There is a shock that sidles from the phrase ‘humans were rare,’ as applied to time in [...]

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Floating in the clouds of VenusLee Nash

Lee Nash — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:47 +0000

Floating in the clouds of Venus Tie me to a met balloon and let me drift in Venus’ atmosphere, that planet masquerading as a star. Suit me up so her sulphuric acid won’t sear my lungs, turn my sugars into dirty carbon sludge; give me a microscope, so I can scan [...]

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Read: MigrationTim Loveday

Tim Loveday — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:22:50 +0000

Migration seasonal migration has lost its language. birds commence reverse flight. head for land that does not exist. island holds breath, throws up sick. human limbs made tides rogue whip. birds circle, cry. swansong is choking sob. our talk is famous. when lunged with death you were brick. a witness [...]

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Read: Feathers & BonesRebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:01:11 +0000

Feathers & Bones There are many carcasses, hundreds of thousands falling out of the sky in a two-mile stretch inland, just in front of my house. Over a dozen flycatchers, swallows and warblers, a volume of deaths both common and sensitive, inexplicable. Before dying to reach winter grounds three billion [...]

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