Monthly Archives: October 2013
Stephen Watt
DISHIRAQ The lifeless carcasses of two wooden spoons float on the surface. Air bubbles gurgle helplessly out of the pint tumbler – the exasperated ‘O’-shape spluttering in the currents. Cutlery’s colourful aquaculture clings on resolutely in the dishwater swamp; the … Continue reading
Sara Clark
A Lone Girl’s Song Singing, as though my hopes were alive with fire, Singing, with my heart pressed in the cold palm of snow, Singing, ‘till my voice is the sound of the wind against holly, Singing, and gazing up … Continue reading
Josephine Corcoran
House Under your body, my language of floors your belly and hips reading small dips and gradients, your fingertips writing worlds on my walls You translated television into me made my bedrooms cells at Colditz and convent cells, rooms … Continue reading
C J Heyworth
Eternal Sunset With gratitude to Fernando Pessoa For a moment or two let us consider the feelings that hurt us most emotions painful as a wasp sting even though they are absurd: we long, we yearn for impossible things for … Continue reading
Mike Logue
Heavy days Heavy days, the view is thick – air hazed with heat. Hedgerows are overblown, verges bloused and seedy – unfreshed by rain Biscuit / golden panels of grain and stubble – drape the contours Balers are busy, pastel … Continue reading
J M Brown
Alter Ego After a few glasses of wine, Clint appeared a dusty vagabond in the bar-room mirror, one tooth missing from a roguish smile, a star spangled bandana slipping over one eye. He’d just married a girl from Haiti, It … Continue reading
The Open Mouse 