Category: Poetry

Chronic by Caroline Druitt (Lucent Dreaming Issue 11)

I send unsolicited pictures of my cat to mycontacts list. Make an Instagram page devotedto my leg hair. Watch videos of running wateruntil I need to pee, revel in the humanness of itall. Remember what my mother said about makingthe best of it. Write the first letters of all my loversnames on a page to make an acrostic; it spellsJJADED.

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Red brick on the beach, by Shan Ahmed

The Sculptor by Julia Smith (Lucent Dreaming Issue 11)

I saw time, in a brickI found on Valentine’s DayWhile alone, walkingThe headland, to PenarthA bright deep orangeFlashing romantic redA beacon glowing in the greyIts corners carvedSmooth, sides softenedPockmarked, planed awayBy the Severn EstuaryLayer by layerFor longer than I could calculateBut which I could see, could feelTime in the tale of a brickI took home, to place on my mantelSo

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Abattoir by Oliver Shrouder (Lucent Dreaming Issue 10)

I didn’t realise the walk was by the abattoirwhen I drove us out in Marchthe last chills of Winter spreading outlike paper ready for colour –my eldest pointed at itasking Dad what is that what is thatat the distant corrugated domeI told them This is where they take the cowsto make them into foodmy eldest laughed at meand my youngest

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About Blanks by Catherine Dome (Lucent Dreaming Issue 10)

Due to limited control of our formatting on posts, the formatting of the following poem is incorrect. GapsBlanks SpacesAbsences perfectThe arrhythmic pulse of adamaged heartThe unreadable signs on her palms Scattered daisies the psalm of springbent on a frost soilrecoilingwaiting for the lightin no straight linemissing a few petalshissed away by the windBye. Buy issue 10 today. Lucent Dreaming is

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