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Ecocide
In the winter turn they say we can hear the mouth of god I like to think it’s the earth struggling to breath the soil a sleeping quarry – pink worms the strands of our hair; Breath can be found locked up in paint tins rusting with the death-masks made from reeds of dew and silver; the gatekeeper broke up all the keys – we could only slip through the fine holes opened up by saint and sinner; Hinges to the gate severed by too much light allowing entrance only to those whose bones are hidden - finding skulls glowing like Arthurian legend’s above a burning pub fire somewhere in Cornwall; Under walnut trees – our bones taken handed out among enemy and stranger; We never boarded a ship of fools designed the sails and anchor filled her with cheap man- made oils - became the green waves that circled Atlantis. Resistance is Not a Surname Given Remembrance is not just a parade the knot we carry in our stomachs – it’s the skin we once touched laughter that carried a memory; a face always remembered first tears in dark bedrooms. Resistance is not a surname given - in buildings like long lungs the colour of charcoaled chews; where a mother held her child made a bird from bone and soil placed it into her top pocket; when the angel guilds her soul she may fly to the highest gates watch the blue earth fade below her feet. ABOUT MATT DUGGAN Matt was born in Bristol 1971 and now lives in Newport, Wales with his partner Kelly, his poems have appeared in many journals such as The Potomac Review, Foxtrot Uniform, Dodging the Rain, Here Comes Everyone, Osiris Poetry Journal, The Blue Nib, The Poetry Village, The Journal, The Dawntreader, The High Window, The Ghost City Review, L’ Ephemere Review, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, Confluence, Marble Poetry Magazine, Polarity, Lakeview International Literary Journal, Matt won the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2015 with his first full collection of poems Dystopia 38.10 and became one of five core members at Erbacce-Press in 2017 also In 2017 Matt won the Into the Void Poetry Prize with his poem Elegy for Magdalene and has read his work across the east – coast of the U.S.A. with readings at the prestigious Cambridge Public Library Poetry Series in Boston, a guest poet appearance at The Parkside Lounge and Sip This in New York City, and he read at his first U.S. book launch in Philadelphia and has two chapbooks available One Million Tiny Cuts (Clare Song Birds Publishing House) and A Season in Another World (Thirty West Publishing House) Matt was one of the winners of the Naji Naaman Literary Honours Prize (2019) and has read his work across the world including The Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta, Italy, at the Poetry Café in London, A Casa dos Poetas in Portugal, New York, Boston, Paxos in Greece, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, and at various venues across the U.K. His second full collection Woodworm was published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2019. In 2020 Matt has a new collection of twenty-Five new poems titled “ The River Flows West When the Dead Are Sleeping” (Maytree Press). And is working on his third full collection “ The Alternative Hand-Book to Love & Disobedience”.
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Taylor Pannell is an artist, designer, storyteller, and baker. She is the author of several collections including My Bible, Notes to Self, and The Traveller. Her work ignites the imagination, captures emotion, delivers its truths, and dares to ask out loud the questions we're all thinking. Paired with her own brilliant art, her writing will return to you that sense of wonder you thought you lost. -Maureen  That ThursdayPrep time: 17 min Time: 10:23 am Pull off the thin sheet still sweating clammy trap stand in front of the fan until I pass out get up again begin frying breakfast. If its august and not a wednesday almost think about you press my phone cut an apple instead about the stiff dough in the refrig- erator which was put there yesterday. Set temperature 3-twenty-five fahrenheit regret quickly on a cookie sheet put all six. Bake until it catches in that nose plasticy melting tucked in smoke the bread is in a boxed hell. Take extinguisher stuff that furnace with white dont stay to watch it die. Let cool out open panes pacing across sidewalks while they interrupt showers piling outside its a red and white spectacle. Try blocking those thoughts headaches and press my temples tell detective while texting you forgot but I couldnt the truck backs away. Cut past my door a couple blocks its still too hot get ice cream not like you cared thats my favorite we ate it last week. Note if you regret not telling that stayed to eat catch into sweating sticky cream smoke you watched judged until today. Try I am not an idiot I dont forget.  4/22/19 |
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