Undone tongue find glistens my shivering heart undone soul my find won't my tongue: words seamless glistens. come undone. tongue seamless won't soul; heart my cold glistens - seamless heart won't find! seamless tongue undone undone heart: words words words cannot - undone come. I find my shivering, seamless, undone tongue my cannot tongue undone … Continue reading Undone Tongue
unnoticed unborn unvoiced under you under me underclass you hate everything i do or you just don’t see me i creep unseen and uninvited through the loopholes of your world insidious inseparable from systems designed to hide … Continue reading Aphrodisios #Budget2015
This ekphrastic response to Andy Warhol's Atomic Bomb, 1965, was written as an exercise for my Writing from History course on the MA. It draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 1936 (Illuminations, Ed. Hannah Arendt, 1968), and is also influenced by this reading of Warhol's image … Continue reading Post-Apocalypse
[*This post contains explicit language and references to sexual violence*] This week in our Experimental Writing class, we've been working with some (Soma)tic Poetry ideas by CA Conrad from the book A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012). (Soma)tic Poetry is designed to open up our creativity by stepping outside the realms of 'normal' writing practice, … Continue reading (Soma)tic Poetry
Sally-Shakti Willow 