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from Firing Pins<\/em><\/strong> Lost Things: Afghanistan (i-vii)<\/strong><\/p>\n (iii) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Insomnia The heartbeat of the thrice-nightly Chinook lulla-lulla \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0not yours tonight,<\/em> Prince and Princess fled over molten the rotor blades a genie\u2019s cough the tempo of a mum\u2019s palm The elsewhere-stitching and transfusing from canvas, spreading hair around Sleep dances and tightens, hard and horse-like, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jo Young<\/b> is one of the co-winners of the 2017 Ink Sweat & Tears\/Caf\u00e9 Writers Pamphlet Commission Competition and the pamphlet Firing Pins<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the result of that competition.<\/p>\n Jo is from York. She has served in the British Army and now the\u00a0Army Reserve for over twenty years. She has two young sons and this is her first pamphlet.<\/p>\n Jo was featured in the panel discussion \u2018Confinement: Exploring Feminist Perspectives\u2019 at Poetry in Aldeburgh yesterday evening and will be launching \u00a0Firing Pins<\/em>\u00a0at Cafe Writers in Norwich on Monday 11th November.<\/p>\n
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\na lullaby \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0not you tonight<\/em><\/p>\n
\n nevertheless, and notwithstanding.<\/em><\/p>\n
\ndunes flung down by a frantic Sandman,<\/p>\n
\nthrough talcum air. A pulse,<\/p>\n
\nrubbing a child\u2019s grazed knee.<\/p>\n
\ncrafting an eiderdown<\/p>\n
\nher softened face in a satin sea.<\/p>\n
\na deep, thumping, velvet surrender.<\/p>\n