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My skyscrapers leak
Under my bath a star-silence.
All the dirty water from slicken thought-fish
joins it. A pond of pheromones
& tessellated reflections. Enough to support
a whole eco-system. It’s only
a weighing of time till it spreads
into my self-clock. Old aprons re-electrify,
cleaned & then recycled
to a home of psychosoma & breath-prints
that flower in gratitude
on our unlatched thunderstorms.
Future Melodrama
My blue-gold, under blankets
vowel-howling through winter
hungry, grubbing for many-letters
pirate awareness, cave-like
sloth, dearest, goodbye-hello
extricated wait-for-me
beheaded helix, spin-spin
collision of loudest
devastation irrevocable
singularity 001001
bankrupt
Counteract
Dew-damp, feet
unpracticed, soundless
in the grass-blade openings
bite of autumn
receptive decay
Hailing from a northern working-class background but living now in ramshackle social housing in Devon, Hannah Linden has had her poetry published in Acumen, Iamb, Lighthouse, Magma, New Welsh Review, Shearsman, Tears in the Fence, Under the Radar and elsewhere. Her most recent awards include 1st prize in the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition in 2021, and highly commended in the Wales Poetry Award 2021. Hannah’s debut pamphlet, The Beautiful Open Sky (V. Press), was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet 2023 in the Saboteur Awards. She’s currently working towards her first full poetry collection. Twitter/X: @hannahl1n
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