Tag: Blue Nib

  • “Safer Distances” and other poems by Jennifer Horgan

    If you were able you’d go upstairs with me. Dream your hips poised mum jug-like dipped towards the sun. In some afternoon’s shuttered light we’re choosing fabrics to be hung. Your style, your certainty, tugs the rope of a French church bell. You’re young again, words held on winding steps in France. In this dream…

  • ‘She’ and other poems by Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon

    ‘She’ and other poems by Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon

    You must not   I did, I did. And, afterwards wind whips, rain falls. I cannot see beyond waterfalls sheeting down from miserable eyes, sluicing nose, cheeks, chin and feel etched trails of aged laughter lines, awash with running snot.   I slap my face, to blot out inner pain. Fingerprints mark shame, sting of…