between a drowning man
By Martyn Crucefix
July 15, 2023
July 15, 2023
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between a drowning man and my child’s skinny dipping
between lip and kiss between brother and estranged younger brother between mother and one of her six children between the kissing gate and the coffin route between cup and lip between the first slurp and sip between the fibreglass fishing rod and the spinning lure between old Capague and Montulet between the will and the contraction of the atrophied muscles between town and country between wealth and what is a simple lack of money between the biscuit tin they put their money in and fake news a hedge fund or tabloid confessions of sin the letter unsent the deleted email the skillfully incised lapidary inscription tragically lost with its improbable cost with its “always and forever” critical burden words scrawled on a scrap of paper by someone by the old gods of rumour all the bridges are falling down |
Martyn Crucefix's new collection will be published in the UK by Salt in Autumn 2023. Recent publications: Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019); These Numbered Days, poems by Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, 2020. Translations of essays by Lutz Seiler, In Case of Loss, is due from And Other Stories in 2023. A major Rilke Selected, Change Your Life, will be published by Pushkin Press in 2024. Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library in London. Blogging at https://martyncrucefix.com/