A Clip from Tomorrow
1.
Who saw us sitting here?
Drunken with details,
slumped over like cheap
dolls on shelves. We’ve been
watching the same news
broadcast since Friday, and
you’ve decided that you
like short-women. And stamps.
And those final scenes from
Jaws where death becomes
something real and vivid and
red. Clouds burst against our
window like words on paper.
Blurring the rise of all winter snow.
Separating HUMAN and NATURE
like we would separate old magazines.
2.
Today.
I feel like a large ocean.
Vast and inscrutable.
About the author
Alex was recently chosen as one of the 85 Commended Foyle Young Poets of The Year (UK). This is his first publication, and he…
Read the full bioIssue 17 · March 2013
Table of contents
- From the editors
- Poetry
- Three Poems by R L Swihart
- Saw Instrumental
- Marketplace
- Numbers
- Two poems by Jim Burke
- The Pink Apartment
- Body-threaded
- An Evening in the Hamptons
- Two poems by Dalton Day
- On the way to Udhagamandalam II
- Eureka, California
- A Clip from Tomorrow
- Homecoming
- Amsterdam II : Scarring the Plate
- Two poems by Maria Apichella
- Late Summer
- Teksi!
- A Common Language
- Postcard Prose
- Travel Notes