Liminal

by Angela France

the dead drift under trees
hedge in unlit alleys

in the angle of wall
and path

dissipate
in the flux

carry nothing
but a scent of absence

a warning
against consolation

*
straining for light
is a habit

darkness resists
examination

there is a pulse
like the beat of a small wing

or the voice of water
a diviner hears

*
an ache for certainty
dissolves

absence fills itself

Buy Occupation from Ragged Raven Press at http://www.raggedraven.co.uk/collections.htm

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March, 2010

Angela France is a Gloucestershire-based poet whose second collection, Occupation is available from Ragged Raven Press. She has had poems published in many of the leading journals, including Agenda, Acumen, Orbis and The SHOp and has been anthologised in a number of small press anthologies—most recently in A Twist of Malice: uncomfortable poems by older women. She has just completed an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and is now studying for a PhD. Angela is features editor of Iota and an editor of the ezine The Shit Creek Review. She also runs a monthly reading series and open mic, ‘Buzzwords’.

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