Migraine day
Two charged wires, that shouldn’t meet,
are touching
and – deeply –
a tenderness of bright red ulcer
pulses. The sky is the colour
of unrequited fights
and love bites.
The magpies are nervy.
The weather – saw-toothed
and pissed – is expressing
its views on the human
condition. Download
some frantic techno – it smooths
the brain waves – a little.
Afternoon’s glass tube will splinter.
Put it down and be sick.
Lash yourself to the frame
of this godawful day.
Then name it.
June Wentland lives in Wiltshire but remains boundlessly proud of coming from Hull. She’s had poems published in many magazines and her first novel Foolish Heroines is to be published in 2021.