SPOTT

Poems by Verity Spott.


Cordite Poetry Review

Sonnet

Now skim the shock of sky that split without us, sinking through the plaiting of the reids: You slept, and whispered all your silence out, the shoreline sang out threats in choking heaves. The houses, polder fizzing in the ear. …

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Cordite Poetry Review

Sonnet

She creaked beneath the weight that taught His skin; His tense electric ghost to be put out amongst the ropes and ladders of His doubt; He’d shake to let his body climb back in. They pushed her organs into disbelief …

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Cordite Poetry Review

Sonnet

for Dolly Coming home to all of most alarm, there across the shaving edge, & back stuck in, be shored & built back, snared to granted joy or tensile pins. If you are there, oh there again is us, colliding …

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Cordite Poetry Review

‘So in your silent still small throat …’

[1]So in your silent still small throat my broken voice may sing. I’d say a mile off the shore is the wind farm. One hundred and sixty eight windmills. I wonder what their sound will be. As they were being …

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Cordite Poetry Review

From a Reverie

In single minute gulps like propranolol the night sways, steadies to a short halt. And the neck stops. Stops wide open to the space it now appears to be in: Belgium, on the north coast where it now seems that …

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Cordite Poetry Review

Sonnet

My young domestic lifeline came to sit exhausted, by the ashes of its lot for what these boys so bravely now commit when life itself is grounded in their rot? If I would be the guillotine, its rungs the head …

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