PETITE SPHINXES ERMITE …….At the Tate, (Modern not Britain), Leonor Fini’s Petite sphinx ermite answers all …….my unborn riddles: broken eggshells, bird’s skull, “a pretty pink” human lung …….swings “at the entrance of its dilapidated lair” as though through years she viewed …….me, remotely, lying here stillborn, slugging masticated slurry through a silicone straw. …….One […]
Roxanna Bennett | SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT
SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT ………. You were taught it’s cruel to keep a sick pet …. suffering but people, …. O people should …. pull themselves up, …. always up, …. by their bootstraps. Who can afford boots? Who has feet? What straps ………. hold up the steeples, skyscrapers, supermarkets, schools? “It’s not far, […]