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  • -
  • Tony Beyer
  • Danielle Hooke Goodbody
  • Alex Josephy
  • Ian Davidson
  • Paul Rossiter
  • Caroline Clark
  • Kate Ashton
  • Iain Britton
  • Mandy Pannett
  • Patricia Farrell
  • Petra Vergunst
  • Tim Allen
  • Vik Shirley
  • Luke Emmett
  • Linda King
  • Kay Syrad
  • Richard Foreman
  • Molly Zoom (live readings)
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  Molly Bloom 25

Linda King

​at the terminal
 
 
you want to eat cake
but the vending machines are empty
that’s how easy it is to disappear
 
you may have wandered
into someone else's nightmare
where everything splits and divides
 
your whole life lingers
in this bus ticket
out of town
 
you watch the bridges
burn behind you through
needle threaded vision
 
your rag-doll metaphors
speak in a new green mottled
by moonlight
 
 
 
 
 
who was it
that stole the colours
from you ?
 
someone who left
their footprints
in the clouds
 
left you
dancing delicate
on panes of glass
 
 
 
 
 
distracted by the alphabet
 
 
bewitched
by locks and keys
old newspaper articles
 
                                                                                                  arguments for the colour red
                                                                                                  blood that flows in every line
 
a reality between
                                                                      theory and compromise
                                                                      high and low
                                                                      before and after
                                                                       
 
mailbox full
of random correspondence
 
                                                                                    weekly appointments
                                                                                                   cancelled
 
 
 
 
 
 
the daughters of darkness
have been unleashed
you begin to sense
your own absence
 
distracted
by the alphabet your words
walk through mirrors
 
                                                                                                  offering a copy
                                                                                                  of who you think you are
while you keep dancing
a dance of sorrow
 
heavy nouns
in a shuffle of boots
                                                                      a missed performance
                                                                                    a vision resigned to undertones
 
and no encore


© Copyright Linda King 2021

Linda King is the author of five poetry collections, the most recent antibodies in the alphabet (BlazeVOX Books 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals in Canada and internationally including Fourteen Hills, Lumina, Gargoyle, Otoliths, Seventh Quarry and Molly Bloom. She lives and writes on The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia

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