Anniversary

Jun 6

Written By Jame Finfer

Want to find this darkling (darkly),

Tell me what, I’ll suit you (partly)

Look at her (she stares so starkly),

‘Encantada’(whispers to me)

Don’t go now (you whisper through me),

Suck the sugar (sweet and cubey),

Opposites in flesh.

Your mammograms are deaf.

What I leave is breath.

Threats. (And dying flowers),

Die some more (you’re taking hours)

Spike me now (corrosive coward),

SantorinI’s sunlight power

Fails you.

Chrysalis in coffin.

Fire’s got a log in.

Mindfulness and jogging.

One more trip around the sun,

And then we’re done (and then we’re done),

One more trip by the moss-wet sun

Sparking.

Agenbite.

Hogmanay drums.

You can listen to a recorded version of this poem at: Purple Radio Spotify

Jame Finfer

Jamie Finfer is an English Literature graduate from St Aidan’s College. He has recently published his debut collection, ‘In Foro’, with The Artel Press. As his publisher writes: ‘These are poems that immediately engage the reader, using a rich and striking vocabulary to illuminate stories of travel, history and cross-cultures across the British Isles – and beyond.’

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