Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore

Author:Isabel Galleymore [Galleymore, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784107147
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

like water lifting from a lake

he mixed with other bodies.

I guessed he loved, the way clouds love,

the free and godly view

and didn’t know the more he pledged

himself to this pursuit

the more he’d fall straight back to me.

Like any eye, I sank

all his disclosures through a nerve

streaming towards the dark.

Spiny Cockle

From their metre-deep sandy resorts

the waves have raised these hard orbs:

clenched like cement hedgehogs

they wear their ribs inside out

and pricked with a white picket fence

to keep their soapdish interiors –

their lattice-gill-slither selves –

from the crunch of an oystercatcher’s kiss

or the orange fog of this starfish

that causes one cockle to buckle and let

its long pink foot slip like a leg

from the slit of its crenulated skirt:

soft pogo on which it floppy-leaps

away across the wet desert.

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