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Poetry

Four Poems

Cat Woodward

Four poems from Cat Woodward’s collection Blood. Flower. Joy!, published by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press in October 2019.

Cat is reading at UEA Live on National Poetry Day, 3 October.

 

 

my kink is Socialism

and portraits of men with carnelian

 

listen up good now, comrade

 

dress sexy

see Tories

go pow pow

 

*

 

damn

these green trousers i’m in

 

no goblin turned heroine

 

Greta agrees

garish as a peony

 

for yielding redeeming

 

jump into the mountain

ass backwards and grin

 

*

 

you there, you are a druid

of terrible portent

 

i ought to be sick

i ought to be oysters

and lamb fat

 

poor pebble

 

i hear humble thunder

killing snow

and more hot white claptrap

 

*

 

lingers his hyacinth

picking up what i put down

 

enchant

 

someone’s little blue

husband in the hawthorn

 

away my grievance

 

with his blushing blue

frankincense

 

who needs her innocence?

when i die

i go to boy heaven

 

 

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