Lesley Curwen’s poems are often about the sea, living as she does within sight of Plymouth Sound where she swims and sails. Her poems have found a home with Nine Pens, Arachne Press, Broken Sleep, GreenInk, Quay Words and Snakeskin. More will be published soon by Ice Floe Press and Black Bough. She has been a member of Greenwich Poetry Workshop for many years.
FINIS (published by Broken Sleep in ‘Footprints’ anthology of eco-poetry 2022)
moonshine in a hot november sky
pigeons shuffle to a sheltering wall
tide rises like a white-ruffed arm
anointing the land with bitter wrack
blotting all prints that came before
wiping lines and edges back to blank
there is no body to watch over us
since the milky way became unplugged
electric light forgets how to flow
voices fade and cars roll uncontrolled
books are shut once and for keeps
all the words inside close their eyes