Kamikaze Gods by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Rush salmon trek in weiry climes,a homeland search to fry their eggs,sunny-side up, with rainbow trout,climbing the thunder falling waves,these fliers breaking subterrain,an over-bearing siren call. Oilskins stripped claws and waiting jaws,distracted, others leap unpaused,the spawning, overwhelming...

Track Changes by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] The most lonely space I ever saw,incomplete, for people-void,white-light site with vacant stare,abandoned cell, no prisoners,insomnia, awake through force,unstaffed pale face, station at night. The starkest change from Adlestrop,fluorescent unknown name strip brokeby bottle thrown or stone...

Centrifuge by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] No number, but her name referred,the consultation, self-engaged,examination shared from couch,no stethoscope to scope her life;how fathom symptomatic cause,white coat and clock, long queue outside? A mystery, science suspense,that homeopathy, so strange,our H20 dilute, again,so less and...

Taming fire by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] That movie, odyssey through dreamy space,whose genesis saw raging ape fling bone,discover tool track, swifter means to tracearmed path to scatter tribesmen, wasted, prone;imagine now crash lightning crack from black,dust devils turning scrub, demented flame,brash thrash of...

Stature by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Paired Inuit greet with rubbing nose -the sculpture, sign and symbol raised,of forefathers who hunted ice;a street-art scene to celebrate. Its standing, rubbing nose in dirt -the statue, plinth-proud, razed to ground,for fettered fathers, disrespect;own stature lost,...