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Plastic Fish

Emily Lawrence — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:40:57 +0000

a fish swims a miracle in each splash of fin passing plastic moulds of himself here there everywhere even the voice of God won’t rid the earth from this plastic fog man has made what it has made we live in the freedom of our tongue we speak be gone...

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What does pain feel like?

Emily Lawrence — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:00:43 +0000

I feel it all As if it were colour Spread across a sheet And mixed in How do you unpick red and green Once it’s become brown Smelling like smoke The swirling greys Rescenting to nil the oranges and blues The chrysanthemums and tomato plants But then she speaks I’m...

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I am listening

Emily Lawrence — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:00:37 +0000

I stand for you, I stand for all of you. I’m standing up now, Educating my unknowns. Listening to the voices of the silenced and unsilenced. I stand for all, for equality, for clear vision For harmony to pervade Trampling the ground gained By words and deeds evil to humanity...

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Bottom-draw vintage silk

Emily Lawrence — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:53 +0000

a motif of history threads of long past memories stitching together like a fustian tapestry only to sn- sn- snag on a machine pulling thread into a hole where bits of time are lost and never again told memory colliding with reality a silk of two lives in one...

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Biosemiotics

Emily Lawrence — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:44 +0000

among whispers and calls the sallow leaves fall with a noise akin to raindrops heaving off trees long after rains’ last fall one by one they drop adding to this song to imbed into strata becoming another reflections and shadows upon my paper even as I walk away...

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Sellotape

Emily Lawrence — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:36 +0000

what was the last stitch you made? was it as blithe as the first? or was it lost to incongruous days with hours moving in and out backwards and forwards? Do you remember? or was your last thought your sewing? the wardrobes and wardrobes of clothes, uniforms, wedding dresses...

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