2016 Poetry Competition: Third Place

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]oar Books is thrilled to announce the results of our first ever poetry competition! In third place is Catherine Wright’s ‘Pisces’. 

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Pisces – Catherine Wright

 

We observed the universe, sitting on a grit bin.

I held my heart in one hand, cigarette in the other.

Your fist enclosed it too, your other palming your own pulse.

We perched on yellow plastic, reflecting the other.

 

And later, years or months or minutes,

We performed sleep in a single bed.

The room unfolded in front of us:

The walls flickered candle-yellow.

 

Our hearts placed underneath the pillows,

Our breath conversed under the sheets.

Like fish in an endless circle, we lay;

Feet and hands touching in parenthesis.

 

Moments like these make me think of time

And activity and blood under skin.

A circuit runs eternal from you to me,

The world has forgotten what it carries.

 

We are not in love because love makes people into promises

And she is nothing more or less than a heartbeat next to mine.

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