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Kim Lasky
Kim Lasky's poems have been published in magazines including Agenda, Seam and the Frogmore Papers, and she is past winner of the Live Literature Fresh Talent competition. She is another talented poet emerging from the Creative and Critical Writing programme at the University of Sussex.
publication:
what it means to fall
This is contemporary poetry with a fine cutting edge.
Peter Abbs
Untitled from what it means to fall
I
Outside intrudes:
the walled garden, the horse chestnut,
the way green leaves turn yellow
from the outside in, lie brittle-thin,
tinder-dry, ready to tear at the touch
of a single stone on a gravel path;
the claw of a passing bird.
Inside her head there are sand dunes,
a red kite trying to catch the wind.
II
On the Downs trees are losing leaves,
impressionist curves shifting to straight lines,
the angular shape of a Picasso landscape.
Shadows are darkening into squares,
green into grey into black, linear,
stacked, like stairs ascending
or descending.
This is the planned accident of a brush stroke;
a single leaf dropping silently at night,
unseen by the semi-circular slice
of a waning gouache moon.