Friday Poems
beyond the gate
by Clare Best — scots pine and resin-scented air / out here / giant oak left of the path / we are walking // sycamore in sun in shade / holly crowding ragged elder // sweet chestnut spruce fir douglas fir
Las Cigüeñas
by Matthew Stewart — The storks’ nest teeters on floodlight pylons, / bushy hair over thirty-two white eyes / that shine against the darkening skyline. // Just seconds left, the home team's pressing hard / for a winner
Book
by Meg Peacocke —The Book of the unknown foetus. / The Book of cats in bags, pigs in pokes, / Moses in baskets with all the eggs. / The Book of errors, terrors, accidents (happy), / accidents (unhappy, Vol. II).