By Katherine Gomes She quivers: A lamb yearning for the slaughter by the boy raised on foul mouth and slapped wrists. Eyes that pierce her glass chest – someone’s daughter Hearts stretched and contorted like clay hereafter A keepsake for the kiln crafted by fists of her quivering body: a lamb yearning for the slaughter … More The Collector
By Ed Wallace They found the cyclops blinded, fossilised wood and bone. In a cave on the blue Aegean, in the cave that was his home. They found a broken larder, trace milk and cheese. They found a spinning wheel stained with faded woad. No butcher’s knife, though. No block of cutting stone, only scratched … More A Cave on the Blue Aegean
By Claire Miller Prompt from our Poetry Soc Collab. They tried to cut the creature, but knives bounced off his skin. They tried to rip and tear and saw, but only stretched his grin. The emerald jelly taunted their curiosity. His very being held the key to high viscosity. Eventually they used a spoon to … More Autopsy of the Blob
by Claire Miller This piece was born from the same prompt as Matthew Bird’s, Beginnings. (Inspired by T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland) April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, as if winter’s icy hand never touched the warm earth, and with frosted nails grabbed either end of the riverbed and cracked its … More Winterfold
By Katherine Gomes Oh how we crane withered necks towards the, Sky that overarches existence Stretching arms upward, craving to govern the seasons Deluding ourselves with the power of Gods that we do not possess yet Desire Wanting to encompass the raging flame, but settle for the kindling that feeds the fire Drunk with power … More Playing God
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