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by Rebecca Robinson
Portballintrae Harbour
Every New Year’s at midday we meet at the harbour and cast our ghosted bodies into the sea. We are no longer seventeen and ,...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Tattoo
My body is a palimpsest under your hands, a papyrus scroll unfurled beneath you, waiting for your mark. I clean my skin, scrape it back to a...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Flora
The cow is on top of her game, her haunches fat, her bones rounded. She feels the goddess power of her udder in the mould-damp dark of the ...
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by Rebecca Robinson
I stop writing the poemto fold the clothes. No matter who livesor who dies, I’m still a woman.I’ll always have plenty to do.I bring the arms o...
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by Rebecca Robinson
iii. Music
My mum cleans the kitchen, opens all the windows, blaring mixtapes dad made in the 80s. The ones he would bring round after he beat her....
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by Rebecca Robinson
Leavings
The devils and the lunatics are loose; bear your children, keep them close
for now. Weave a cocoon ...
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by Rebecca Robinson
The Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard (section)
There are fleas and flies and knots and nits,
breadcrumbs, marmite stains and bits
of pencils...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Grass sings to her roots
Man thinks these are the colours
of air and water, of light and freeing,
but before this they were ours:
our blades ...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Unfocused landscape --------
windows curtained with rain.
Days
leaking into days.
-------Andrew Gibbons
Thi...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Lap
The children first, half a dozen
revved up to arrive at the seaside
surge around where we sit on the pebbles.
In their wake the grown-up...
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by Rebecca Robinson
Meeting My Fathers
Derek, first to arrive, is in Barbour shirt, sensible trousers;
Sonnie wears denims, shirt open to mid-chest,
his St Christophe...
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by Rebecca Robinson
On The Move We are packed together like the contents of a suitcase. We cannot move. We have to move to another house. We haven’t enough rooms. We...
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