‘On tenterhooks / you think how string constricts, how / it connects, how you followed it back / to Rawtenstall.’
This is the closest you can get to flight:
tugging the heartstrings of a kite
whose loops and dives remind you
of your son’s handwriting, his quest
for heights. How long is the piece of string
that tethers us to this moment, you’d think.
Kissing the shuttle your mother would
suck the thread thro…
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
