Lorna Martin’s work has most recently appeared in A Quiet Courage and Roulade Magazine. She was awarded the 2016 Brunel Writer prize and was shortlisted for the Mslexia Poetry Prize in 2014. Lorna is currently working on her first chapbook of poems. You can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lornarabbit.
we weep out of our old body and leave it
static the crunching of what used to be
our skin is distant like when roots below our
many tender limbs snap there is no
unravelling me from the swarm there is no
untangling but being caught each movement writhes
through all of us each drop of light boils
through all of us we have waited
seventeen years in the earth womb
to see the sun and die.
we pile up in gutters roaring
bellowing ourself towards each other
all of it the swarm hot movement
the scattered insect our million wings expand
our million eyes on the blur of us
one and the swarm and each tiny beating part of us
moves as one intent and there is no fear no worry
just movement just heat all kinetic and
still
my wings tremble
Lorna Martin‘s work has most recently appeared in A Quiet Courage and Roulade Magazine. She was awarded the 2016 Brunel Writer prize and was shortlisted for the Mslexia Poetry Prize in 2014. Lorna is currently working on her first chapbook of poems. You can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lornarabbit.
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