Tag: southword journal

  • ‘sans’ published southword literary journal

    sans it is all ceremony it is all the cloths all gathered-in it is white tailor’s chalk in a neat triangle it is the blanket-stitch before the machine it is the neighbour woman with her bone-pick pulling stitches one by one from the curtain lining the [bone-pick] is ivory coloured a little larger than a…

  • ‘Crinoline’ and ‘sans’ by C. Murray

    Crinoline The grief synesthete bears her horsehair dress heavy as the rose haw throbs its orange glow,   through forest or stream, each time a visit to the griefscape is necessitated,                                                  …

  • ‘Through the blossom-gate’ by C. Murray

    Through the blossom-gate,   and quite before the acid leaf unfurls into its meaning— we are subjected to the play of light working on our necessity to speak out into a flowering. It is not yet warm — already the sun is playing at dragging up and displaying those unwanted words elucidatory and garish in their…