By Alberto Arecchi Birds flying above death chimneys recall an era that will never return. Men fighting under a thousand flags whose...

By Charlotte Mary Smith I want to eat the lilt in your tongue, Curl my fingernails round your ringlets till they snag And I can’t get...

By D. E. Johnston The woods display a chilly light when blanketed in icy white. In sleep, they portend the silence of eternal...

By Glyn Matthews Lightning in the wires welds their bodies, fries their silly brains to scrambled eggs in cranial pans.   Pompeiian arms...

By M.M.Wake In chrome-lit streets I drink despair, love’s ghost warm on my tongue. Your eyes, twin knives, unravel me a martyr to...

By M.M.Wake I wanted stars, got an empty pint glass, cigarette ash and a stranger’s coat. They left at closing, I stayed watching...

By M.M.Wake The rain’s black tongue licks the roof raw. Pipes rattle with ghosts of women who left and never came back. My belly...

By M.M.Wake I buried my name in coal-dust soil, fed it rainwater and grief. Roots coiled round my marrow, petals pressed prayers to a...

By M.M.Wake I wake with dirt in my teeth, hands smelling of fight. Last night’s liquor still growls in my gut. Love? That’s a joke ...