All Poems

Question 1

Originally (8)

Answer 1

Fell through the feild
Bawling
Eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw
Your accent wrong
My parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth
Skelf of shame
Shedding its skin like a snake

Question 2

The way my mother speaks (8)

Answer 2

Under the shallows of my breath
Restful shapes moving
Browsing for the right sky
Nothing is not silent
Happy and sad
Dipped a net in a green erotic pond
Homesick free in love
Too blue swapped for a cool grey

Question 3

In mrs TiIschers class

Answer 3

Skittle of milk
Tana. Ethiopia
Chalking pyramids rubbed to dust
Glowed like a sweet shop
Faint uneasy smudge of a mistake
Inky tadpoles changed
Jumping and croaking
You kicked him
Then tuned away
Sky split open into a thunderstorm

Question 4

War photographer

Answer 4

Finally alone
Ordered rows
Preparing to intone Mass
All flesh is grass
He has a job to do
Faintly start to twist
Half formed ghost
Sundays supplement
They do not care.

Question 5

Valentine

Answer 5

Possessive and faithful
Wobbling photos of grief
Loops shrink
Lethal
Cling
Your knife

Question 6

Mrs Midas

Answer 6

I made him sit on the other side of the room
Burnished throne
I put a chair against my door
Spitting out teeth of the rich
Strange, wild, vain
Woman who married the fool
Shaking hand
I gazed. Entranced