a poem for evenings and tears, written and rewritten
liminal light the sky breaking
a cataract of rain and the wind blooming
small bone-huddles hunker in the wet wood
damp and fragrant with its dim blood-work
spliced charcoal and olive the shadows contain shadows
thin,
a fox haunts them
a wraith of swallowed teeth/
a torn throat flooding
the sound of hidden birds a firefly dying
the darkness now assembled
the night loud with the Earth turning
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huddles and dim charcoal thin shadows breaking Earth
throat liminal damp blooming darkness
and olive small now, turning
wraith sky in flooding swallowed wind
hidden bone wood rain the fox sound with blood teeth
the work assembled
a firefly haunts torn, dying wet the cataract
the night of fragrant birds
shadows spliced a loud light
Born in Stirling, Scotland in 1966, Gillian Prew studied Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1984 to 1988. Her chapbook, Disconnections, can be purchased from erbacce-press (2011) and another chapbook, In the Broken Things, was published by Virgogray Press (2011). Her collection, Throats Full of Graves, was published in 2013 by Lapwing Publications. A further collection, A Wound’s Sound, was released from Oneiros Books in April 2014 and her chapbook, Three Colours Grief, was published by erbacce-press in June 2016. Her latest project (a collaboration with the poet and artist, Karen Little) is a small booklet contributing to a series raising funds for an animal shelter. She has been twice short-listed for the erbacce-prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.