Today’s choice

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Jeff Skinner

 

 

 

Erato

It takes ages. Tell me what it is you’re after
she says, when finally I get through.
Rain, I answer, rain that falls softly

in a garden, and on the Aegean,
the noise they make together,
trees in the rain, and the way rain brightens

the green leaves and the blue tiles
shine like new. Is that everything? she asks
and I say, yes it is, for the moment, yes.

 

 

Jeff Skinner’s poems have been published in anthologies and journals, most recently in Poetry News, Allegro, Drawn to the Light. He was commended in the recent Sonnet or Not competition. He volunteers at his local food bank, reads, writes.

John Greening

On Stage in a home-made model theatre, c.1967 Glued to your block, in paint and ink you wait for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to stop. Smell of hardboard and hot bakelite. The lino curtain’s ready to go up. At which, the straightened coat hanger is shoved and on you...

Kirsty Fox

Winged     Kirsty Fox is a writer and artist specialising in ecopoetics. She writes lyric essays and poetry, and has had work published by Apricot Press, Arachne Press, and Streetcake Magazine. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and is currently studying...