Rebecca Faulkner
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet, arts educator, and climate activist. Her poems have been published in Solstice Magazine, Smoke Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Pedestal Magazine, The Maine Review, On the Seawall, Into the Void, and other journals. She was anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, and was a semifinalist for the 2021 Red Wheelbarrow Prize. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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 & all at once
the red mailbox collapses my house teeters
rafters yearn for sleep weeping in fresh
darkness as faith slips from us I mourn
the certainty of the street lamp folly of the old road
& we cannot turn back
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet, arts educator, and climate activist. Her poems have been published in Solstice Magazine, Smoke Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Pedestal Magazine, The Maine Review, On the Seawall, Into the Void, and other journals. She was anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, and was a semifinalist for the 2021 Red Wheelbarrow Prize. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.