Poem Of The Month: July 2013
For July's Poem of the Month I have chosen the poem 'No Ghosts' by Gillian Prew . It is taken from her collection Throats Full of Graves.
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NO GHOSTS
Her eyelids the world heavy and lost, her womb
a hole, a drifting husk – the winter of her wounds. Her blood
a beginning passed as innocent fire dirty
as her mother’s dust her father’s flooded organs.
Her worry a crime the fraudulent songs of glass and spires
the abject need for miracles.
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