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DYSFUNCTIONAL
By Stephen House i had been drawn into a conversation i hadn’t understood a word of, and it had seemed so poetic, so hypnotic, so removed...
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ALL THIS PAST WE FORGOT
By Stella Mathioudakis In a world where truth is an option Where rather than fact crave reaction Listen We talk, and talk, and talk Over...
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ROSE
By David J Costello Each year he took his knife to her. Stropped it on the dry-stone wall. Honed its cut in the time-honoured way. ...
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HOSPICING WASPS
By Sophie Craven There’s a wasp on my bathroom floor that’s been dying for three days. Every time I wee, I watch him, and every time I...
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BREACH
By Marilena Zackheos He opened her door like a gentleman and rode — I can take you — straight into a dirt field. Yellow...
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IN THE SHOWER
By Sera Jonas Jakob today it seems as though the hot water that comes out of the pipes is screaming as it jets out high pitched and...
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ANATOMY OF A KNIFE
By Rebecca Starr I tell you I love you As the point of your blade Pierces my hairline, A thick drop of blood Trickling its...
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THE JACKDAW
By Emma Woodhouse A cry resounds, cracked and harsh Alights the jackdaw upon the wall And all about the sparrows chitter I lift my head...
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EULOGY FOR A DREAM
By Peter Devonald We are all just fragments of a bomb the instant it explodes, our history caught in a scream, echoing through eternity,...
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DECONSTRUCTION AS SEARCH FOR PEACE IN THE AGE OF IDENTITY CRISIS
By Rachael Hill Take apart my face, piece by piece; start with the large features place my nose in a bowl of its own pop out my eyes and...
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WHEN WILL I WRITE MY LOVE POETRY?
By Saul Lowndes Britton When I find him naked by the window on some sun-drenched and cool late morning, easy smile painted on at...
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CROSSROADS
By Nathan Lunt In the darkening glow of a moonlit sunset, I met a familiar stranger walking the lonely communal road To the central...
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GERARD'S
By Maeve McKenna under a rubbish truck Gerard’s hanging from the second-floor balcony syringes stuck to chewing gum on the chalked stones...
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IN THE PATHOLOGY MUSEUM
By Simon Ó Conchúir Oh if you’d only slice me open Divine vivisection Searching now with surgeon’s hand For my source of life’s great...
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THE PASSIONLESS AND THE DAMNED
By DLC Hanson Bedraggled and spent, the passionless and the damned scrambled south through febrile grume, hemmed and steered by sleight...
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HENRY FUSELI'S THE NIGHTMARE
By Mehran Waheed “Papa! Papa!” Your howls prey on my name, shake the stars, rattle the moon, shock my heart like a horse's head on my...
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PLAGUE
By C. J. Jagger In the dark hours of torn wings Your feathers fall I’ll meet you there A broken voice calls Shame upon thy name And...
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CENTRAL VENOUS LINE
By Áine Rose Connell Greyness drinks colour from the sky, knocks it back clean. A notepad is filled by a girl in a field, where two quiet...
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DECEPTION OF CIVILISATION
By Mohammed Omer You’d think that the sight of blood would be enough, To act with some compassion and empathy, To realise the urgency of...
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KEEPER
By Angela Cheveau i.m. of Emily Bronte’s Beloved Dog When night had teeth / my mistress / was all snarl and spit / beneath...
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