by Danielle | Jul 12, 2026 | Guest Poems
My Garden I have been here far too longwith the grass growing through mesprouting up on my toes and chest,flowers adorning my hair.A bird perches on the lawnof my leg watching the beespollinate the laurel of my head.The woodlice inside my hearthave burrows through its...
by Danielle | Jul 12, 2026 | Guest Poems
Avoir du Poids Degas knew it: the weightof his hand on thick paperas he pressed down or skimmedwith a crayon. The strong armof the Repasseuse as she guides the hot ironround the seams of chemisesand blousons: the outs and insof complicated pleats. Miss La La– how the...
by Danielle | Jun 6, 2026 | Guest Poems
CPR On his knees in the wet street he pressedon the chest of a stranger older than his mother. Gifting again her lungs with his breath, then handsre-clasped in a kind of prayer-meets-compression. (What are prayers anyway without repetition?Or miracles, in this case,...
by Danielle | Jun 6, 2026 | Guest Poems
Orcadian Inheritance For Ann Scarth (née Harper), 1762 to 1867, Evie, Orkney My dear child, you can travel the worldbut I am bound to this place, this grey blue sky and sea, this brown green land, red grey standing stones.I live, I live, I lived a hundred years and...
by Danielle | May 31, 2026 | Guest Poems
The Dance Morning Walk at Cannon Hall, Barnsley Electric orange, acid yellow, cyan, these bird-likeguardians, totems carved from pine and oak, installedin their set stations, keep watch over the narrow serpentine,the muddy island, this tangled wilderness of...
by Danielle | May 31, 2026 | Guest Poems
A Rhizomic Persuasion Golden Shovel based on a quote from Elizabeth Heyrick’s ‘Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition: or an Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest and Most Effectual means of getting rid of West Indian Slavery’ In Leicester market watch whatpeople stop to buy,...
