{"id":1350,"date":"2008-08-21T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2008-08-21T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:22:00","slug":"new-poetry-by-kerry-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-poetry-by-kerry-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry by Kerry Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Economy of Letters<\/span>


After the phone call my heart turned to blackened honeycomb. <\/span>
With every sore beat it rained Chernobyl snow down on soft unprepared insides.<\/span>

Breathe became a baby.<\/span>
Struggling for enough air to scream out the indignity of helplessness.<\/span>

Loss. Fuck.<\/span>
F o u r letters,<\/span>
brutally succinct.<\/span>

It\u2019s the shock.<\/span>
Drink dark tea. Three sugars.<\/span>
Let the steely sweet coat my tongue.<\/span>

Limbs curl small,<\/span>
jammed between my stove and a wall.<\/span>
A face tilted towards the enduring sky,<\/span>
too relentless for my eyes to assault.<\/span>

It chastens.<\/span>
I become still and mute.<\/span>
The economy of those letters,<\/span>
just a small part of the fullness of life.<\/span>



* Kerry Hudson writes short stories and poems. She is currently working on her first novel in East London in a pile of books and shoes called home.<\/span>

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