Realisation about a friend
slowly
and deliberately
you draw
information out of me
the way my son
eats a strawberry
holding firmly
onto the green stem
sucking it down
to the pulp
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana lived in Japan for 10 years. She holds an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University, was shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Prize 2018, and read at the American Writer’s Program Conference, in Portland Oregon this year.