Molly Bloom 25
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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

Luke Emmett

​Negating a waiting
– full of dirt and shit



In the dirt of a farm
two children run not
on plasma yard, they run
after their small dog.

Crossword of produce to
pay, children run, their
parents queuing with
stillness not last night.

I switch absently on-
to our car upholstery,
(a reason to wait). We
exist not if running,

they forget the queue,
but embracing. My
mother shops for food.
I comport to escape.



A day in the sun



In the sternum
beats hard muscle

(no fist) to sinusoids,
not for nor at the

world, but alogia:
justice made me.




Waiting still?
– after Leino



Any fool can get into an ocean;
who walks on the shore rejoicing?

There was a seaside sparrow,
too gentle to sing, its feet black,
sensing something: it escaped.

We glare at bathers, they talk but
I was happy to yeah love
them alone.




Run-way


At one to two, I
made no scenes;

marry or not, the
waters I sung.

Two and one
had met for lunch

among passerines,
Brighton’s pier,

for landing,
almost clear.
© Copyright Luke Emmett 2021

Luke Emmett's work has appeared in Litter, Stride, The Fortnightly Review, and ink sweat & tears. He blogs at https://grotesquecatalysts.com/
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