and you say she’s gone for good

and you say she’s gone for good

From the upcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’. Published in Oxford Magazine Eighth Week Michaelmas Term, 2023 and you say she’s gone for good (for Jane Kenyon) the cyclonetook your home and yourwits last monsoon butthat’s not true – youwere done after...
bone island

bone island

Shortlisted: 2020 Bridport Poetry Prize bone island I take my bones each night andlay them one by one upon the cabinetby our bedstead, separating flats fromlongs or wedging the irregulars in betweento prop up the assortment of humanbulk; once I finish with the bones...