Issue 17: Tom Betteridge

from COPSING

grit

trigger grouse

bore turgid


trial retrieved hare-

emptied mittens


trieb burst

nose


copsing


°


falderal

effort


nerve

truffled plume


lead pickled

breast


slick

biped law


°


snaring vale


brake rapt

leaves


gamely bent

blue sweater


beating

diversity shot

bowery snipe


°


pedi flush

border row


harrier tube

gin sloes

carmine


hushed


coverage

vertiginous millet


°


kale-tapped

quarry sale

patch


darkling

thrash


glints


gimmick

clay mime


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estate rivulet


carvery

uncommoning

rave


nominal veracity

mint alloy


arcing

guilt limit

Tom Betteridge is a writer and researcher living in London. His poems and essays have appeared in Textual Practice, Scree, Spam, Intercapillary Space, ZARF, Gnommero, The Literateur, Hix Eros and DATABLEED.

 

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