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By Amy Wolstenholme

Good morning / someone you know is
probably dead. Have you checked yet? /
It’s  your  fault  /  If you followed  /
If you didn’t follow / What the government
said  / Blame  someone  else /  We  did
everything right /  Best  in the world  /
Top of the line  / But someone you know is
probably dead. Have you checked yet? /
We follow the science / It’s not our fault
/ Tests are readily available /  Next month /
America  is  burning   /   It’s a boy   /
How    do     you     identify?                /
Tick male  /  tick female / tick OTHER /
What    do    you     mean     other?
/ Were you born here? / There are migrants
dying  in the  channel / PEOPLE   /
What  do  you  mean  people?  / Someone
you  don’t  know  is  probably  drowning /
There’s  no  need  to  bother  checking.
The fisherman pull skulls from the deep /
/ all  the  fish  are  swimming  elsewhere  /
the  scientists  who  cry  extinct  will  be
inexplicably  missing  this  evening.

 

 

Amy Wolstenholme is a scientist by day and a poet by night, originally from the beautiful Jurassic Coast. Whether slicing up a genome or carving out a stanza, her work comes from a place of awe and love for the natural world. Her recent works can also be found in Visual Verse, Crow & Cross Keys and in several places on the Young Poets Network. She can be found at @AmyWolstenholm3 on Twitter.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue 22

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