A short sequence from Andrew Mcmillan

by | Jul 15, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across Americai) Atlantic Crossingtomorrow’s rain huddledbeneath the planeEngland a thread unravellinginto the Irish Seaa man in ‘departures’ madean Arthur Miller script of goodbyehis wife whispering how...

Annemarie Ní Churreáin's 'Laundry'

by | Jul 14, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

LaundryHere in the Indian foothills, I share a house with a man from Greecewho speaks no English perfectly,disappears for days on a motorbike,leaves his laundry on the low make-shift line, grieving an absent sun.Side by side they hang: his shirt, my summer dressas if...

Andrew Pidoux's 'Gravity'

by | Jul 13, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

GravityPatrick Moore, amateur astronomer and broadcaster (b.1923)Planetary in his demeanor, Humped in a puckered leather chair,                    Patrick Moore contemplates the universe In all...

Sarah Dunne's 'Eastertide'

by | Jul 10, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

EastertideThe day he rose from the dead, who’d have thought that your headwould crack like an egg on the floorand all the doctors and nurses couldn’t put you back together.So clever, you travelled through timeand woke me to say goodbye.Now there’s a big village gap...

Words by Max Wallis, Image by Agnesbic

by | Jul 7, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image

Allow yourself this one dayhungover from love. To sit in your sad cocoonbed-lain on lemon bon bon sheets and sick with ache,cuddling your bones. Let the day roll into night.Do not fret about the red numbers in your account,about deadlines and business worries; pick up...

Pat Borthwick's 'Katya'

by | Jul 6, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

KatyaNot of my own choosingdo my paps darken like muzzles.My belly slowly swells.I cannot see my valley now.I crave for lassibut they bring us rusty waterin the bottom of a can.They come and come,day, night, day,unbuttoning as the door slaps against the stucco.They...