Chantress Snaking briar Kiss the ground Make a root Where you’re found Snick and snag Kitten claws Do your worst Little thorns Overgrow Overthrow Nature’s way Hammer home He is gone He who strimmed Beat you back Lopped your limbs Dragged you forth Burnt your dead Boiled your young Smeared his … Continue reading Chantress by Susie McComb
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Summer’s Last by Harry Gallagher
Summer’s Last As the seafront echoes to talk of icecream weather and how the washing can wait until the morning and all-walked-out children piggyback up the slipway on crispyskinned parents who are planning for bedtime, hemmed in behind the bars of an offshore windfarm, awaiting its jailbreak, Autumn gathers its anvils. As I … Continue reading Summer’s Last by Harry Gallagher
