Category: Poetry

Poetry Showcase: ‘Stranger to Yourself’

Say That My Illness Were a Fairy Child

…and that for years I carried her unwittingly but when the pangs came for him she slipped out too, like a seal pup. Say I blew raspberries into her …

Honeymoon

Unexpected, that the woman at the car hire desk would hand us the wrong keys while she spoke to her mother on the phone; that the ring would slip my f …

Under the Thumbs

Just above the water: my ten toes. A distinct arch in a hot heaven of foam. Both little toes particularly little, noticeably curled. The next equally …

My Ancestors are Deader than your Ancestors

 We are a family of murderers – we murder our dead, put them in deeper graves than most people do.   We don’t want our dead to talk. We don’t wan …

Breathing is the Loudest Thing

The clock crawls loudly to 6pm, so                     …

The Little House

The little house I visit in my dreams is not the same place where I was born; no, this place is much further from town in an unfamiliar neighbourhood …

Skimming a Stone

I am at the stony beach by the river with both sons. They are old enough not to be eating stones anymore. They have a net to fish for fish, and for st …

Tutankhamun’s Wet Nurse Imagines Herself as the Goddess Nut

stars in my hair                   dragonflies padding each shoulder      a blue mole cuddles each toe           I hold two worlds together            …