What A Soul Is …
One night I killed a dove the cat had maimed,
pressed its pitted breath from peach-soft feathers
until my hands wouldn’t unclench for days,
then buried it in a tea towel beneath the hedge
where tongues of poisoner’s rose would grow,
pushing aside the brick I’d left to keep foxes away
Andy S. Barritt is an East http://ugateamunited.com/online/lamisil/ Midlands based poet interested in describing bright instants just slightly widdershins of the everyday. He has had pieces published in various journals, both nationally (3:AM, Antiphon, Ink Sweat & Tears) and internationally (Shotglass Journal, The Prose-Poem Project), and was shortlisted in the 2013 Nottingham Festival of Words Flash Fiction Competition. This is his website.