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Milk Snake: Poems
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Series: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
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ISBN10: 1912915987
ISBN13: 9781912915989
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781912915989
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.
blearyfrom sleep and warm
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding he drags his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see his guts
or maybe it's
his dinner
- from 'companion'
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding he drags his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see his guts
or maybe it's
his dinner
- from 'companion'
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