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issue XI, page 46/47

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to pluck weeds out of a growing sunflower is a labor of love
and patience – tear them out too quick and the wounds
can’t heal; coax them out too slow and they keep festering

to pluck weeds out of a growing sunflower

August

play it again

Featured Writer Tyler Jones

The link leads to a feature page from where you’ll have to dowload a free PDF of Issue XI. My poem is the 21st piece in this Issue (my favourite number 🙂). Also, the cover art is by my wonderfully talented friend, Josithaa.

Labyrinth Laceration

"All I'll come here for is decay / and sunflower seeds." 

When spring leaves too quickly to plant forget-me-nots

"first concert of the year, montrose saloon, 6/4/21"

to feel the juice of forbidden fruit drip languidly down our chins
stick under our fingernails
and mindlessly suck the seeds from the skin with the core lodging our throats open for more
and why live
if not to devour?

forbidden fruit 

A short piece published in Ice Lolly Review's 'Hope During the Pandemic' project, about how lockdown's disruption to rituals with my Grandad affected my anxieties about him getting older and less able to participate in those rituals.

summers on dartmoor, 2001 - 2020

So when I say
I am a poet,
condemn me as a thief.

I make myself
avoid the appearance
of listening (page 34)

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