Poem Of The Month: February 2015

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For February's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'Transfusion' by James R Kilner.

It is taken from his collection Frequencies of Light.

TRANSFUSION

Let your illness

leak into me

and leave you.

Contaminate me, darling.

Let heavy thoughts lift,

balloons

from a child’s fingers.

Rise from the bed,

resume

your look of old.

Let me descend.

Let my shape adapt

to the contours left

by your body

in the bed

and let me change.

Image by Adam Rudden

"Frequencies of Light" is available to purchase below

Copyright © James R Kilner 2015

All rights reserved

The author has asserted his right under Section 77

of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988

to be identified as the author of this work.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.

A catalogue record for this book is available from

the British Library.