Guest Poem by Jackie Hutchinson

Jackie Hutchinson is a former NHS administrator and charity worker, born in London of Jamaican parentage, she now lives and writes in East Sussex. Her poetry has appeared in Graffiti Magazine and been commended in the East Sussex 'Feast of Words’ competition, the Brighton & Hove Arts Council Poetry Competition and the Editors' Prize of the 2022 Magma Poetry Competition. This poem is from Acumen 115.

Orca

A discus slicing water into two camps.
Point surge tipped from abundance to scarcity,
current knowledge (bound) in an oceanic history.

She balances the world’s memory into yin yang black,
strikes above the wave, whose day is showering blue
yearns the absence of super yacht, radar, lines.

and knows the crypto secret of undersea mining
her polychromatic bow familiar, translates the
paperback water into hardback under your vessel
flipped. Gangs up, separates, reconvenes
observes you with her child’s eye.