Abridged

Cut down and out and not needed 

Crossed out crossing 

Across pages of floating detail, floundering and flushed

Conspiring, to breathe together 

In short cut secrets 

Bridged between a smile

Excess, the craft of makers 

Feel the small breath taking ticking 

The glow of giggling glimpses

Plots of gold, marked with an X

Joined journeying tales, too long

Jumping lightening bridges 

Efficient and empty 

Unseen depth of water running 

Wide and unrestrained, unreturned 

To pages and pages tuning and turning 

Rhythm of rivers 

Abridged. 

Hetty Mentzel

Hetty Mentzel is a First Year English Cuth's student who regularly irritates her friends by reading aloud nice sentences from books and poems for their edification. She enjoys talking to strangers on public transport, noting down new words she reads and writing poems in the back of notebooks.

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