Reuben Woolley

time songs

1.

night

is unstable

sometimes

it rolls over you
in the dark
& flattens a secret
population

this thing
this incessancy
is a traitor.it

counts

to twenty-four
& starts again

2

there is no
time

counting

i’m slowly becoming
dead

like all

the others

hung
up to dry
on several days

 

 

 

 

Reuben Woolley has been published in various magazines including Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House, Domestic Cherry, The Stare’s Nest and Ink Sweat and Tears. His collection, the king is dead  was published in 2014 with Oneiros Books,  and a chapbook, dying notes, in 2015 with Erbacce Press. Runner-up: Overton Poetry Pamphlet competition and the Erbacce Prize in 2015. A new collection on the refugee crisis, skins, was published by Hesterglock Press, 2016: . He pretends to be busy editing the online magazines: I am not a silent poet and The Curly Mind.