#kitty coles

[violettesiren]

The weather turns. A wind from the north has flown in, with its violent curse, and it raises the waves till I cannot shut out their yowling.

The old scars itch on my flank, disquieted. The hairs on my spine rise up in the chill that presses itself under the door, an insinuating ghost.

The cat has wound herself to an endless running from one end of the house to the other, poor bristling devil.

The grass is aching with frost. Birds fall, small toys, from the trees in their deaths. The cold is murderous.

In the churchyard, the drowned walk at noon as if it were night. They return to old beds, slip in by their frozen wives.

And I am numbing myself with my baking, my stitching, by washing the floors till the stone begins to thin. I hide my face from the mirror: its enquiry threatens. If I could forget, the water could not claim me.

Seal Wife by  Kitty Coles

[nutshellsandnuggets]

Kitty Coles - One Poem

Your Name It's too soon to say whether your name is like grain and, the more I throw it to the air, the more of it roots deep, sprouts green, settles for harvest; or whether it's like coins, growing soiled and dull the more it's passed around, thinned and diminished by the hands of others. * Kitty Coles is one of the two winners of the 2016 Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize and her debut pamphlet, Seal Wife, was published in 2017. I like short poems because, for me, what's unsaid is often more interesting than what's said.

[nutshellsandnuggets]

Kitty Coles - One Poem

The Lake You were superstitious about touching the sleeping water, piercing its flawless surface with a finger-prick or toehold. I let my hand sink in up to the wrist and wake whatever lay there, knowing its retribution mattered less than things that you and I'd already broken. * Kitty lives in Surrey and her poetry has been widely published.  Her debut pamphlet, Seal Wife, will be published by Indigo Dreams in August 2017. www.kittyrcoles.com I like short poems because, for me, poetry is often more about what you don't say than what you say.